On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:54:11AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > According to _Unix Network Programming_, only the umask controls the
> > permissions of a Unix domain socket created by bind(). This makes it
> > difficult to correctly control permissions on sockets in a
> > multithreaded process, since the umask is not thread-specific.
> > Therefore, currently bind_unix_socket() in socket-util.c has a race.
> >
> > On Linux, one can also affect the permissions of a Unix domain socket
> > by fchmoding the socket *before* calling bind(). Based on a glance at
> > the FreeBSD source, I don't think that this works on BSD. Is there
> > another way to do it there? (Does it work to fchmod the socket
> > post-bind?) If not, we might have to add a fallback that forks off a
> > process, sets the umask, and binds the socket.
> >
> > I guess FreeBSD and NetBSD could potentially differ here, too.
>
> NetBSD doesn't have an alternative way. i think the situation is
> same for FreeBSD but i haven't checked.
>
> anyway, it would be nice to have a portable fallback.
> using a temporary directory might be less invasive than folk.
Does it have the desired effect to chmod("socket", 0600) after the bind
but before the listen?
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