From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch] Fix handling of overlength pathname in AF_UNIX sun_path Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:31:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120418.133102.1711079292327461659.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20120418.001650.1042781402985153056.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, penguin-kernel-1yMVhJb1mP/7nzcFbJAaVXf5DAMn2ifp@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, yoshfuji-VfPWfsRibaP+Ru+s062T9g@public.gmane.org, jengelh-nopoi9nDyk+ELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org, w@1wt.eu, alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org To: carlos-v2tUB8YBRSi3e3T8WW9gsA@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: "Carlos O'Donell" Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:57:58 -0400 > In summary your opinion is that the API has and always will allow up > to 108 chars to be used in sun_path? Yes. > In which case I will talk to the Austin group to get a good example > added to POSIX showing safe usage. Why would you add language to POSIX for Linux specific behavior? Just curious :-)