netdev - [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: socket bind to file descriptor introduced

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Message-ID: <20120815161141.7598.16682.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:21:56 +0400
From:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	hpa@...or.com
Cc:	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,
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	devel@...nvz.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: socket bind to file descriptor introduced

This patch set introduces new socket operation and new system call:
sys_fbind(), which allows to bind socket to opened file.
File to bind to can be created by sys_mknod(S_IFSOCK) and opened by
open(O_PATH).

This system call is especially required for UNIX sockets, which has name
lenght limitation.

The following series implements...

---

Stanislav Kinsbursky (5):
      net: cleanup unix_bind() a little
      net: split unix_bind()
      net: new protocol operation fbind() introduced
      net: fbind() for unix sockets protocol operations introduced
      syscall: sys_fbind() introduced


 arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl |    1 
 arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl |    1 
 include/linux/net.h              |    2 +
 include/linux/syscalls.h         |    1 
 kernel/sys_ni.c                  |    3 +
 net/socket.c                     |   25 +++++++
 net/unix/af_unix.c               |  136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 7 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)


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