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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Getting events on unix socket
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:51:15 -0400
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On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 02:29:23 PM Satish Chandra Kilaru wrote:
> I would like to receive events on unix socket in binary format.
> There is already another program that is reading events from unix socket in
> string format. I created another config file as below...
>
> active = yes
> direction = out
> path = builtin_af_unix
> type = builtin
> args = 0640 /var/run/satish_events
> format = binary
> 
> In my test program I am reading events from the socket
> /var/run/satish_events
> Surprisingly I see events in string format as well as binary format.
> 
> Is it by design or a bug?

I'd have to check. I don't think it was intended to run more than one 
instance. What is better, though, is to write the plugin to just read stdin. 

-Steve