systemd socket

A convenience crate for optionally supporting systemd socket activation.

About

The goal of this crate is to make socket activation with systemd in your project trivial. It provides a replacement for std::net::SocketAddr that allows parsing the bind address from string just like the one from std but on top of that also allows systemd://socket_name format that tells it to use systemd activation with given socket name. Then it provides a method to bind the address which will return the socket from systemd if available.

The provided type supports conversions from various types of strings and also serde and parse_arg via feature flag. Thanks to this the change to your code should be minimal - parsing will continue to work, it'll just allow a new format. You only need to change the code to use SocketAddr::bind() instead of TcpListener::bind() for binding.

You also don't need to worry about conditional compilation to ensure OS compatibility. This crate handles that for you by disabling systemd on non-linux systems.

Further, the crate also provides methods for binding tokio 0.2, 0.3, and async_std sockets if the appropriate features are activated.

Example

```rust use systemd_socket::SocketAddr; use std::convert::TryFrom; use std::io::Write;

let mut args = std::env::argsos(); let programname = args.next().expect("unknown program name"); let socketaddr = args.next().expect("missing socket address"); let socketaddr = SocketAddr::tryfrom(socketaddr).expect("failed to parse socket address"); let socket = socket_addr.bind().expect("failed to bind socket");

loop { let _ = socket .accept() .expect("failed to accept connection") .0 .writeall(b"Hello world!") .maperr(|err| eprintln!("Failed to send {}", err)); } ```

Features

MSRV

This crate must always compile with the latest Rust available in the latest Debian stable. That is currently Rust 1.41.1. (Debian 10 - Buster)

License

MITNFA