async def send_to_ipc_server(socket_file: Path, cmd, **kwargs):
    try:
        socket_port = int(socket_file.read_text().strip())

    except (ValueError, OSError) as exc:
        raise IPCServerNotRunning("Invalid IPC socket file") from exc

    try:
        stream = await trio.open_tcp_stream("127.0.0.1", socket_port)

        raw_req = cmd_req_serializer.dumps({"cmd": cmd, **kwargs})
        await stream.send_all(raw_req)
        unpacker = Unpacker(exc_cls=IPCServerError)
        while True:
            raw = await stream.receive_some(1000)
            if not raw:
                raise IPCServerError(
                    f"IPC server has closed the connection unexpectly")
            unpacker.feed(raw)
            raw_rep = next(unpacker, None)
            rep = cmd_rep_serializer.load(raw_rep)
            if rep:
                if rep["status"] != "ok":
                    raise IPCServerBadResponse(rep)
                return rep

    except SerdeError as exc:
        raise IPCServerError(f"Invalid message format: {exc}") from exc

    except (OSError, trio.BrokenResourceError) as exc:
        raise IPCServerNotRunning(
            f"Impossible to connect to IPC server: {exc}") from exc
    async def _client_handler(stream):

        # General exception handling
        try:

            # Stream handling
            try:

                unpacker = Unpacker()
                async for raw in stream:
                    unpacker.feed(raw)
                    for cmd in unpacker:
                        cmd = cmd_req_serializer.load(cmd)
                        rep = await cmd_handler(cmd)
                        raw_rep = cmd_rep_serializer.dumps(rep)
                        logger.info("Command processed",
                                    cmd=cmd["cmd"],
                                    rep_status=rep["status"])
                        await stream.send_all(raw_rep)

            except SerdeError as exc:
                await stream.send_all(
                    packb({
                        "status": "invalid_format",
                        "reason": str(exc)
                    }))

            finally:
                await stream.aclose()

        except trio.BrokenResourceError:
            pass  # Peer has closed the connection while we were sending a response

        except Exception:
            logger.exception("Unexpected crash")