netdev - Re: [patch] Fix handling of overlength pathname in AF_UNIX sun

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:11:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, carlos@...temhalted.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, w@....eu
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix handling of overlength pathname in AF_UNIX
 sun_path


On Thursday 2012-04-19 12:33, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>
>Anyway, I've dug deeper, looking at hat happens on other platforms.
>It's a mess: the BSDs don't even guarantee  that sun_path is
>null_terminated. So, here's how one has to portably deal with the
>variations:
>
>addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_un);
>cfd = accept(lfd, &addr, &addlen);
>
>printf("%.*s", addrlen - offsetof(struct sockaddr_un, sun_path), addr.sun_path);

What operating system made you write that?


I just ask for fun and the record. Solaris's dirent is also
constructed such that using sizeof(...) is useless.

typedef struct dirent {
        ino_t           d_ino;          /* "inode number" of entry */
        off_t           d_off;          /* offset of disk directory entry */
        unsigned short  d_reclen;       /* length of this record */
        char            d_name[1];      /* name of file */
} dirent_t;
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