linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: connect to UNIX sockets from specified root

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Date:	Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:28:18 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>,
	Trond.Myklebust@...app.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	xemul@...allels.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: connect to UNIX sockets from specified
 root

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:11:50 -0400
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 07:26:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On that whole subject...
> > > 
> > > Do we need a Unix domain socket equivalent to openat()?
> > 
> > I don't think so. The name is just a file system indexing trick, it's not
> > really the socket proper. It's little more than "ascii string with
> > permissions attached"
> 
> That's overstating the case.  As I understand it the address is resolved
> by a pathname lookup like any other--it can follow symlinks, is relative
> to the current working directory and filesystem namespace, etc. 

Explicitly for Linux yes - this is not generally true of the AF_UNIX
socket domain and even the permissions aspect isn't guaranteed to be
supported on some BSD environments !

The name is however just a proxy for the socket itself. You don't even
get a device node in the usual sense or the same inode in the file system
space.

Alan
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