On 08/15/2012 09:52 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbur...@parallels.com> writes:
>
>> This system call is especially required for UNIX sockets, which has name
>> lenght limitation.
>
> The worst of the name length limitations can be worked around by
> opening the directory where the socket is to go as a file
> descriptor, then using /proc/self/fd/<fd>/<basename> as the name
> of the socket. This technique also works with "connect" and in
> other contexts where a struct sockaddr is needed. At first
> glance, it looks like your patches only help with "bind".
>
The really hard part is what to do with things that are supposed to
return a struct sockaddr. I also have some reservations about using a
new system call to deal with what at least theoretically is only part of
one socket domain.
-hpa
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