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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/15/2012 09:52 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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".
> 

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