X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket - Perl module for IO::Socket::UNIX-based X11 connections

X11-Protocol documentation Contained in the X11-Protocol distribution.

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NAME

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X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket - Perl module for IO::Socket::UNIX-based X11 connections

SYNOPSIS

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  use X11::Protocol;
  use X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket;
  $conn = X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket
    ->open($host, $display_number);
  $x = X11::Protocol->new($conn);

DESCRIPTION

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This module is used by X11::Protocol to establish a connection and communicate with a server over a local Unix-domain socket connection, using the IO::Socket::UNIX module. The host argument is ignored.

AUTHOR

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Stephen McCamant <SMCCAM@cpan.org>.

SEE ALSO

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perl(1), X11::Protocol, X11::Protocol::Connection::INETSocket, X11::Protocol::Connection::Socket, IO::Socket.

X11-Protocol documentation Contained in the X11-Protocol distribution. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

package X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket;

# Copyright (C) 1997 Stephen McCamant. All rights reserved. This program
# is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify it under the same
# terms as Perl itself.

use X11::Protocol::Connection::Socket;
use IO::Socket;
use Socket;
use Carp;
use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);

@ISA = ('X11::Protocol::Connection::Socket');

$VERSION = 0.01;

sub open {
    my($pkg) = shift;
    my($host, $dispnum) = @_;
    my($sock) = IO::Socket::UNIX->new('Type' => SOCK_STREAM(),
				      'Peer' => "/tmp/.X11-unix/X$dispnum");
    croak "Can't connect to display `unix:$dispnum': $!" unless $sock;
    $sock->autoflush(0);
    return bless \$sock, $pkg;
}
1;
__END__