cleansocket

Cleans up old sockets before listening on them.

When trying to listen on a socketfile, a server will emit an EADDRINUSE error even if the socket is no longer alive. @dshaw came up with a rad solution but it still doesn't check to see if the socket is dead before blowing it away.

cleansocket ensures that the file is indeed a socket and that it's not still listening for connections before it deletes the file. It also provides a way to override all .listen() methods so it does this automatically.

Install

$ npm install cleansocket

Example

const cleansocket = require('cleansocket')
const net = require('net')
const server = net.createServer(function(socket){
  socket.pipe(socket)
})
 
cleansocket('/tmp/echo.sock', function(error, socketfile) {
  // if the file was unable to be removed for some reason, there would
  // be an error. Otherwise the original filename is returned
  server.listen(socketfile)
})

You can also globally hijack all .listen() functions:

require('cleansocket/listen')
 
const net = require('net')
const server = http.createServer()
server.on('request', function(req, res){
  req.pipe(res)
})
 
// will call `cleansocket` before trying to listen. Add an `error`
// listener to server to catch and deal with any errors
server.listen('/tmp/http-echo.sock')

Errors

FileExists

Emitted if the file exists and is not a socket. The following properties are added to the error in addition to the standard ones:

• stats: An fs.Stats object.
• filename: Name of the file

SocketNotDead

Emitted when the file is a socket, but it is still accepting connections.

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2013 Brian J. Brennan

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