package rpc import ( "C" "fmt" "net" "os" "path/filepath" "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc" log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" ) var ( // On Linux, sun_path is 108 bytes in size // see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/unix.7.html maxPathSize = 108 ) // ipcListen will create a Unix socket on the given endpoint. func ipcListen(endpoint string) (net.Listener, error) { if len(endpoint) > int(maxPathSize) { log.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("The ipc endpoint is longer than %d characters. ", maxPathSize), "endpoint", endpoint) } // Ensure the IPC path exists and remove any previous leftover if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(endpoint), 0751); err != nil { return nil, err } os.Remove(endpoint) l, err := net.Listen("unix", endpoint) if err != nil { return nil, err } os.Chmod(endpoint, 0600) return l, nil } // StartIPCEndpoint starts an IPC endpoint. func StartIPCEndpoint(ipcEndpoint string, apis []rpc.API) (net.Listener, *rpc.Server, error) { // Register all the APIs exposed by the services. handler := rpc.NewServer() for _, api := range apis { if err := handler.RegisterName(api.Namespace, api.Service); err != nil { return nil, nil, err } log.Debug("IPC registered", "namespace", api.Namespace) } // All APIs registered, start the IPC listener. listener, err := ipcListen(ipcEndpoint) if err != nil { return nil, nil, err } go handler.ServeListener(listener) return listener, handler, nil }