[Devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: socket bind to file descriptor introduced

[Ben Pfaff]

Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky at 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".