gen_socket is an Erlang socket interface which can be used to create gen_tcp and gen_udp based sockets with special properties.
Existing use cases are:
- gen_udp socket that talks netlink to the linux kernel
- gen_tcp socket that is a unix domain socket
In all cases a special file descriptor is created and passed to the gen_tcp/gen_udp driver for further handling
WARNING: pre R15, it was possible to create a non-INET socket and have gen_udp work on it. With R15 the check rules in fdopen() have been tightened to prevent this kind of trickery.
Using tetrapak:
# tetrapak build check
Using rebar:
# rebar get-deps
# rebar compile