in reply to Re^3: Using Net::SSH2 with DBI
in thread Using Net::SSH2 with DBI

It's the socket name that the mysql client will use to connect to the server. No?

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Re^5: Using Net::SSH2 with DBI
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 20, 2016 at 15:37 UTC

    Sure, but that doesn't help if your plan is to do the (IP-)socket setup yourself.

    If your plan is to spawn an external process which listens to the named (domain-)socket, giving that name to libmysql will help a bit.