On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 19:37 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> That basically means that besides systemd itself and maybe the D-Bus
> system bus almost nobody can safely use fixed name abstract namespace
> sockets. In particular user code that uses fixed name abstract namespace
> sockets is necessarily vulnerable to DoS attacks.
> 
> Yes, abstract namespace sockets only have a very limited use.

On my desktop, abstract namespace sockets are twice more popular than
the regular ones:

 ber...@giskard:~$ netstat -ax | grep @ | wc -l
 151
 ber...@giskard:~$ netstat -ax  | grep -v @ | grep / | wc -l
 73

Most uses are from dbus, but I'm also seeing gnome-session and
gvfsd-trash.

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