Module ipc 

Platform-agnostic IPC transport for the NDN management socket.

Abstracts over Unix domain sockets (Linux / macOS) and Windows Named Pipes so that MgmtClient, run_face_listener, and ndn-ctl compile and run on all three platforms without conditional-compilation scaffolding at each call site.

Face type

IpcFace uses boxed trait objects for the read / write halves so the concrete type is identical on every platform:

IpcFace = StreamFace<
    Box<dyn AsyncRead + Send + Unpin>,
    Box<dyn AsyncWrite + Send + Unpin>,
    TlvCodec,
>

The boxing overhead is negligible for management traffic.

Default socket paths

Platform	Default path
Unix	/run/ndn/mgmt.sock (or /tmp/ndn.sock in dev)
Windows	\\.\pipe\ndn

Structs

IpcListener

Listens for IPC connections on the management socket path.

Functions

ipc_face_connect

Connect to the IPC socket at path and return an IpcFace.

Type Aliases

IpcFace

Platform-agnostic NDN face over the management IPC socket.