Add a unix socket for the daemon

[Damien Churchill]

Using Twisted adding a unix socket to the daemon will be incredibly easy so unless there is an incredibly performance hit or a drastic amount of additional memory is used then there seems to be no reason not to.

[andar]

Yes, this is definitely possible. What is your motivation for this?

[Damien Churchill]

Means that there will be no TCP over head and also no possibility of any network mis-configuration causing issues. Had a user the other day who didn't have a lo interface. Granted definitely the users fault but the unix socket would've avoided any breakage.

[treyzania]

I'd like to ask if there's still any interest in implementing this. I'd like to be able to connect to a daemon listening on a unix socket on a remote server I'm connecting to over SSH.

The goal I have in mind is to be able to have Deluge running in a separate Linux namespace with *only* a network interface for OpenVPN. That makes it complicated to allow remote hosts to connect to the daemon socket. I could do some magic with iptables but I'd rather not have to set that up.