The link in the accepted answer by @cidermonkey is great if you're trying to write an app that uses sockets. If you want to create one you can do it in python:
~]# python -c "import socket as s; sock = s.socket(s.AF_UNIX); sock.bind('/tmp/somesocket')"
~]# ll /tmp/somesocket
srwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Mar 3 19:30 /tmp/somesocket
Or you can use the tiny C program, for e.g., save the following to create the socket.c:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
// The following line expects the socket path to be first argument
char * mysocketpath = argv[1];
// Alternatively, you could comment that and set it statically:
//char * mysocketpath = "/tmp/mysock";
struct sockaddr_un namesock;
int fd;
namesock.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
strncpy(namesock.sun_path, (char *)mysocketpath, sizeof(namesock.sun_path));
fd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *) &namesock, sizeof(struct sockaddr_un));
close(fd);
return 0;
}
Then install gcc, compile it, and ta-da:
~]# gcc -o create-a-socket create-a-socket.c
~]# ./create-a-socket mysock
~]# ll mysock
srwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Mar 3 17:45 mysock
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