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-#lang racket/base
-
-;; Support for connecting to UNIX domain sockets.
-
-#|
-References:
-linux (64):
-  Linux Standard Base Core Specification 4.1
-macosx (64):
-  /usr/include/i386/_types.h: __darwin_socklen_t
-  /usr/include/sys/socket.h: AF_UNIX
-  /usr/include/sys/un.h: struct sockaddr_un
-|#
-
-(require racket/contract
-         (rename-in ffi/unsafe (-> -->))
-         ffi/unsafe/define
-         ffi/file
-         unstable/error)
-
-(provide
- (contract-out
-  [unix-socket-available?
-   boolean?]
-  [unix-socket-connect
-   (-> unix-socket-path? (values input-port? output-port?))]
-  [unix-socket-path?
-   (-> any/c boolean?)]))
-
-
-;; Data structures and error handling code differs between the platforms.
-(define platform
-  (cond
-    [(eq? (system-type 'os) 'macosx)
-     'macosx]
-    [(regexp-match? #rx"^Linux" (system-type 'machine))
-     'linux]
-    [else
-     #f]))
-
-
-(define unix-socket-available?
-  (and platform #t))
-
-
-(define AF-UNIX 1)
-(define SOCK-STREAM 1)
-
-(define UNIX-PATH-MAX
-  (case platform
-    [(linux) 108]
-    [else    104]))
-
-(define _socklen_t
-  (case platform
-    [(linux) _uint]
-    [else    _uint32]))
-
-(define-cstruct _linux_sockaddr_un
-  ([sun_family _ushort]
-   [sun_path   (make-array-type _byte UNIX-PATH-MAX)]))
-
-(define-cstruct _macosx_sockaddr_un
-  ([sun_len    _ubyte]
-   [sun_family _ubyte]
-   [sun_path   (make-array-type _byte UNIX-PATH-MAX)]))
-
-(define _sockaddr_un-pointer
-  (case platform
-    [(linux)  _linux_sockaddr_un-pointer]
-    [(macosx) _macosx_sockaddr_un-pointer]
-    [else     _pointer]))
-
-
-(define-ffi-definer define-libc (ffi-lib #f)
-  #:default-make-fail make-not-available)
-
-(define-libc socket
-  (_fun #:save-errno 'posix
-        _int _int _int --> _int))
-
-(define-libc connect
-  (_fun #:save-errno 'posix
-        _int _sockaddr_un-pointer _int --> _int))
-
-(define-libc close
-  (_fun #:save-errno 'posix
-        _int --> _int))
-
-(define-libc scheme_make_fd_output_port
-  (_fun _int _racket _bool _bool _bool --> _racket))
-
-(define strerror-name
-  (case platform
-    [(linux) "__xpg_strerror_r"]
-    [else    "strerror_r"]))
-
-(define strerror_r
-  (get-ffi-obj strerror-name #f
-               (_fun (errno) ::
-                     (errno : _int)
-                     (buf : _bytes = (make-bytes 1000))
-                     (buf-len : _size = (bytes-length buf))
-                     --> _void
-                     --> (cast buf _bytes _string/locale))
-               (lambda ()
-                 (lambda (errno) #f))))
-
-
-(define (unix-socket-path? v)
-  (and (unix-socket-path->bytes v) #t))
-
-(define (unix-socket-path->bytes path)
-  (if (path-string? path)
-      ;; On all platforms, normal path of up to UNIX-PATH-MAX bytes after
-      ;; conversion to absolute is considered valid and shall be accepted.
-      (let ([bstr (path->bytes (cleanse-path (path->complete-path path)))])
-        (and (<= (bytes-length bstr) UNIX-PATH-MAX) bstr))
-
-      ;; On Linux, paths may be in so-called abstract namespace where they
-      ;; start with #\nul and do not have a corresponding socket file.
-      ;; We accept such paths only as byte strings because we don't know
-      ;; the correct encoding.
-      (and (eq? platform 'linux)
-           (bytes? path)
-           (> (bytes-length path) 0)
-           (<= (bytes-length path) UNIX-PATH-MAX)
-           (= (bytes-ref path 0) 0)
-           path)))
-
-
-(define (make-sockaddr path-bytes)
-  (case platform
-    [(linux)
-     (make-linux_sockaddr_un AF-UNIX path-bytes)]
-    [(macosx)
-     (make-macosx_sockaddr_un (bytes-length path-bytes) AF-UNIX path-bytes)]))
-
-
-(define (unix-socket-connect path)
-  (unless platform
-    (error* 'unix-socket-connect
-            "unix domain sockets are not supported on this platform"))
-
-  (when (path-string? path)
-    (security-guard-check-file 'unix-socket-connect path '(read write)))
-
-  (let* ([path-bytes (unix-socket-path->bytes path)]
-         [sockaddr   (make-sockaddr path-bytes)]
-         [addrlen    (+ (ctype-sizeof _ushort) (bytes-length path-bytes))]
-         [socket-fd  (socket AF-UNIX SOCK-STREAM 0)])
-    (unless (positive? socket-fd)
-      (let ([errno (saved-errno)])
-        (error* 'unix-socket-connect
-                "failed to create socket"
-                "errno" errno
-                '("error" maybe) (strerror_r errno))))
-
-    (unless (zero? (connect socket-fd sockaddr addrlen))
-      (close socket-fd)
-      (let ([errno (saved-errno)])
-        (error* 'unix-socket-connect
-                "failed to connect socket"
-                '("path" value) path
-                "errno" errno
-                '("error" maybe) (strerror_r errno))))
-
-    (with-handlers ([(lambda (e) #t)
-                     (lambda (exn)
-                       (close socket-fd)
-                       (raise exn))])
-      (scheme_make_fd_output_port socket-fd 'unix-socket #f #f #t))))