See PipesFS: Fast Linux I/O in the Unix Tradition [1]
"PipesFS replaces socket-specific data access calls (like send and recvmsg) with basic reading from and writing to pipes, whereby the location of the pipe identifies the socket. The actual path for sockets is long, consisting of 8 filters for the reception end, but users are easily shielded from this com- plexity through symbolic links"
"PipesFS replaces socket-specific data access calls (like send and recvmsg) with basic reading from and writing to pipes, whereby the location of the pipe identifies the socket. The actual path for sockets is long, consisting of 8 filters for the reception end, but users are easily shielded from this com- plexity through symbolic links"
[1] https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/papers/deBruijn_Bos_...