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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use Test::More tests => 3;
+use FindBin qw($Bin);
+use lib "$Bin/lib";
+use MemcachedTest;
+
+my $filename = "/tmp/memcachetest$$";
+
+my $server = new_memcached("-s $filename");
+my $sock = $server->sock;
+
+ok(-S $filename, "creating unix domain socket $filename");
+
+# set foo (and should get it)
+print $sock "set foo 0 0 6\r\nfooval\r\n";
+
+is(scalar <$sock>, "STORED\r\n", "stored foo");
+mem_get_is($sock, "foo", "fooval");
+
+unlink($filename);
+
+## Just some basic stuff for now...