UNIX Domain Sockets and Cocoa

Question

I want to implement IPC in a Cocoa application using UNIX domain sockets, with which I have no experience. I found Apple's CFLocalServer example project, but it's written in C and looks, well, fairly complicated (and yes, I have read most of it).

Are the techniques demonstrated in CFLocalServer still state-of-the-art, or is there a way to implement UNIX domain sockets in Objective-C with Cocoa/Foundation?

I'm playing with NSSocketPorts and NSFileHandles (which provide a healthy amount of abstraction, which is great for this project) and found some very-related code in Mike Bean's Networking in Cocoa, but haven't been able to Make It All Work yet.

Anyone done this before?

Answer 1

Why not try POSIX named pipes. Mac OSX is a POSIX-ish operating system based on BSD so it should be straight forward:

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/ipc/fifos.html