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Re:Fun with Unix domain sockets by colek42 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:27PM (#27942787)
Are you challenging me to build a socat loadbalancer in bash? In all seriousness, I concur. But if you just need to redirect some data streams socat is a rock solid and simple solution.
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Re:Fun with Unix domain sockets by jsjohnst on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:44PM (#27942942)
> Are you challenging me to build a socat loadbalancer in bash?

It’s a Saturday and all, so yeah, I’m challenging you (for fun, not because I don’t think it’s possible).

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Re:Fun with Unix domain sockets by marcosdumay on Saturday July 24, 2021 @02:28PM (#27943321)
From a quick read of the manpage, I don't think it's possible either, unless you mess with EXEC or create multiple listeners to a single address.

Anyway, the Linux kernel does have a builtin loadbalancer in the form of shared sockets that you can socat outside of the machine. But I wouldn't call that a socat loadbalancer.

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