Daniel Perelman
The problem# I wanted to maintain an SSH port forward to a Unix socket indefinitely. Such a connection would allow a specific user (or group) on the remote computer access to a network service running on the source computer that's not exposed to the public internet. The part where I want the...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I was working on a bugfix for a GUI application I use, but I didn't want my development to interfere with the instance I was actually running. The application stores state that I didn't want to be modified by the in-development code in a few different places (data, settings, cache)...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# Previously, I wrote about using named pipes for IPC to allow controlling a process by another process running on the same computer possibly as a different user, with the access control set by file permissions. But I observed that the restricted unidirectional communication mechanism...