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I have tested on node 0.10 and 0.12; in 0.12 the core net library correctly listens and also connects to paths starting with '\0', so it seems this module is now redundant. It would be nice if a note to that effect is included in the front page of this project - it is only useful for 0.10 and below.

Instead of patching just net.createConnection, this should probably patch Socket.prototype.connect.
A way to also handle abstract socket servers (net.createServer or Socket.prototype.listen) might also be expected from users, but since that's not easy to fake with executing socat maybe a note for the incomplete functionality should be added to the README.md.

The reliance on socat binary in the system path may not be obvious to users and needs to be more clearly documented in README.md

binary module example: https://github.com/bnoordhuis/node-unix-dgram

what is it for? how does an abstract socket differ from a regular socket?