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42wim / matterircd

Connect to your mattermost or slack using your IRC-client of choice.
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Allow binding to a Unix socket #276

Closed cjwatson closed 4 years ago

cjwatson commented 4 years ago

For a single-user bridge, listening on a Unix socket can be more convenient than listening on a TCP port: you don't have to worry about port security or port clashes (especially if running on somebody else's multi-user system), and you can just rely on filesystem permissions on the socket in question. Of course you need an IRC client that supports connecting to Unix sockets, but e.g. irssi does.

If the bind option is given a path (detected by checking whether it contains the path separator character), treat it as the path to a Unix socket and bind to that.

42wim commented 4 years ago

Cool, didn't know irssi supported that :+1: