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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:54:15 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: blp@...stanford.edu CC: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net, thierry.reding@...onic-design.de, bfields@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, xemul@...allels.com, neilb@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, gorcunov@...nvz.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com, devel@...nvz.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: socket bind to file descriptor introduced On 08/15/2012 09:52 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com> writes: > >> This system call is especially required for UNIX sockets, which has name >> lenght limitation. > > The worst of the name length limitations can be worked around by > opening the directory where the socket is to go as a file > descriptor, then using /proc/self/fd/<fd>/<basename> as the name > of the socket. This technique also works with "connect" and in > other contexts where a struct sockaddr is needed. At first > glance, it looks like your patches only help with "bind". > The really hard part is what to do with things that are supposed to return a struct sockaddr. I also have some reservations about using a new system call to deal with what at least theoretically is only part of one socket domain. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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