[New-bugs-announce] [issue32715] Make create_unix_server for SOCK_DGRAM work

[holger]

New submission from holger <holger+lp at freyther.de>:

The current implementation verifies that the sock passed is a stream socket. This limitation appears to be arbitrary and is limiting.

* An AF_UNIX SOCK_DGRAM server socket becomes readable when one can accept(2) it. Just like SOCK_STREAM.
* One could provide a different factory to create a reader/writer to use a SOCK_DGRAM socket (but most likely nothing special is needed)
* A connected AF_UNIX SOCK_DGRAM socket will work with normal read/write messages just like SOCK_STREAM.

AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM is interesting because it provides a reliable transport for messages. This avoids having to write message segmentation or packing messages in any kind of envelope.

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components: asyncio
messages: 311188
nosy: asvetlov, holger+lp, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Make create_unix_server for SOCK_DGRAM work
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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