Here is another good (and working) example -- a simple server written in BASH. Please note that you would need OpenBSD's netcat, the classic one won't work. Of course you could use inet socket instead of unix one.

server.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SOCKET=server.sock
PIDFILE=server.pid

(
    exec </dev/null
    exec >/dev/null
    exec 2>/dev/null
    coproc SERVER {
        exec nc -l -k -U $SOCKET
    }
    echo $SERVER_PID > $PIDFILE
    {
        while read ; do
            echo "pong $REPLY"
        done
    } <&${SERVER[0]} >&${SERVER[1]}
    rm -f $PIDFILE
    rm -f $SOCKET
) &
disown $!

client.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SOCKET=server.sock

coproc CLIENT {
    exec nc -U $SOCKET
}

{
    echo "$@"
    read
} <&${CLIENT[0]} >&${CLIENT[1]}

echo $REPLY

Usage:

$ ./server.sh
$ ./client.sh ping
pong ping
$ ./client.sh 12345
pong 12345
$ kill $(cat server.pid)
$

Here is another good (and working) example -- a simple server written in BASH. Please note that you would need OpenBSD's netcat, the classic one won't work. Of course you could use inet socket instead of unix one.

server.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SOCKET=server.sock
PIDFILE=server.pid

(
    exec </dev/null
    exec >/dev/null
    exec 2>/dev/null
    coproc SERVER {
        exec nc -l -k -U $SOCKET
    }
    echo $SERVER_PID > $PIDFILE
    {
        while read ; do
            echo "pong $REPLY"
        done
    } <&${SERVER[0]} >&${SERVER[1]}
    rm -f $PIDFILE
    rm -f $SOCKET
) &
disown $!

client.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SOCKET=server.sock

coproc CLIENT {
    exec nc -U $SOCKET
}

{
    echo "$@"
    read
} <&${CLIENT[0]} >&${CLIENT[1]}

echo $REPLY

Usage:

$ ./server.sh
$ ./client.sh ping
pong ping
$ ./client.sh 12345
pong 12345
$ kill $(cat server.pid)
$