Questions tagged [socket]

Are there predefined Emacs functions to check if a file is a Unix socket? The best I could come up with is the following code. (defun socket-p (fname) "Return non-nil if FNAME is a Unix Socket, nil otherwise." (eq (string-to-char (nth 8…

I need to copy a directory tree that holds Unix socket files somewhere inside. As Unix sockets cannot be copied, when I use copy-directory, the copy-file function used by copy-directory throws an error because it cannot copy the Unix socket…