[WIP] Allow for UDF communication over a Unix Socket #442
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Fixes #417
Now you can configure a UDF as a Unix Socket instead of having Kapacitor spawn a subprocess.
This enables the use of UDFs from within Docker. Start Kapacitor in its own container and mount socket files from other containers which are the UDF processes.
The original mechanism to spawn a subprocess still works and is unchanged.
TODO:
Note since the UDF code we significantly restructured in this PR it fixes #441.