netdev - Re: [PATCH] unix: show socket peer if no addr is given in /proc/net/unix

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Date:	Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:50:40 +0900 (JST)
From:	Masatake YAMATO <yamato@...hat.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unix: show socket peer if no addr is given in
 /proc/net/unix

Thank you for reviwing.
I'll use netlink diag facility.

Masatake YAMATO

On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 01:00:43 -0500 (EST), David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@...hat.com>
> Date: Wed,  8 Jan 2014 14:18:08 +0900
> 
>> Path field of /proc/net/unix is empty if an address is not given
>> to a socket. Typical way to create such socket is calling
>> socketpair. The empty fields make it difficult to understand the
>> communication between processes. e.g. lsof cannot resolve the role of
>> file descriptors well.
>> 
>> This patch fills the empty fields with unix_peer.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@...hat.com>
> 
> You cannot change the format of a procfs file without potentially
> breaking some application which might interpret the output.
> 
> In this case an application might be looking for an empty field
> as meaning the sockhad has no given address.
> 
> I cannot apply this patch.  People have repeatedly tried making
> changes to these networking socket procfs files, and I really wish
> people would stop trying to do so.
> 
> If you want specific pieces of new information, extend the socket
> dumping facility that is actually extensible in a way which will not
> break existing applications, and that's netlink.
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