Instead of getting a unix socket by running: $ netstat -xp | grep
This script does it searching for the socket under /proc directory.
In the 1st terminal run:
$ bind_socket.py test - Will create a socket named test and wait on it forever.
In the 2nd terminal run:
$ find_socket.py test - The program will return the pid(process id) of the process holding the socket.
You may verify this by running:
ps aux | grep <pid> and see it is acctualy the same process id in the output of netstat -xp | grep test
The idea for this project came up by looking at the netstat source code. Which can be found here: netstat.c