Module ipc 

this module contains all the shared IPC logic agnostic to servers and clients. in particular, it contains the Message type and its components and the Connection type, which abstracts away sopht’s messaging protocol

Structs

Connection

structure containing the state of a connection to the sopht socket

Functions

create_client_connection

creates a UnixStream and attempts to build a Connection out of it. if the stream cannot be created, this function returns SocketError

socket_file_path

obtains the file path of the unix socket file on the local machine whether it exists or not. this function can fail if the current user has no HOME directory (NoHomeDir)