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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:36:50 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: kalou@....net Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, adobriyan@...il.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] net: socket: implement SO_DESCRIPTION From: Pascal Bouchareine <kalou@....net> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:28:27 -0700 > This command attaches the zero terminated string in optval to the > socket for troubleshooting purposes. The free string is displayed in the > process fdinfo file for that fd (/proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd>). > > One intended usage is to allow processes to self-document sockets > for netstat and friends to report > > We ignore optlen and constrain the string to a static max size > > Signed-off-by: Pascal Bouchareine <kalou@....net> This change is really a non-starter unless the information gets published somewhere where people actually look at dumped sockets, and that's inet_diag and friends.
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