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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: carlos@systemhalted.org
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jengelh@medozas.de, w@1wt.eu,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix handling of overlength pathname in AF_UNIX sun_path
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:23:52 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120418.152352.748260330741957708.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADZpyizwozRjYOvOads0KkqRr2quTo532TC=Ff=cw0sGc3OCQg@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:48:43 -0400

> POSIX doesn't exist in a vacuum, we need to harmonize reality with the
> standard. If an implementation exists where sun_path has no
> null-terminator then it is useful to have POSIX clarify that
> null-termination is implementation defined behaviour, just like it
> says that sun_path's length undefined. Under "Application Usage" or
> "Examples" it's valid to talk about specific implementations.
> 
> See: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/sys/un.h.html,
> where it talks about BSD in the "Application Usage." It's about time
> we some "Linux this" and "Linux that" in there.

Ok, thanks for explaining.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-18 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-17 10:44 [patch] Fix handling of overlength pathname in AF_UNIX sun_path Michael Kerrisk
     [not found] ` <4F8D497F.8060601-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-17 10:51   ` Willy Tarreau
     [not found]     ` <20120417105107.GA8614-K+wRfnb2/UA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-17 15:43       ` Carlos O'Donell
2012-04-18 19:44     ` Alan Cox
2012-04-18  2:36 ` David Miller
     [not found]   ` <20120417.223614.629911246108750471.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-18  4:08     ` Carlos O'Donell
     [not found]       ` <CADZpyix6DZ93f8MQf3Aa1NVV7HCFMAXVAdzRMFBY7xWHHQMPog-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-18  4:16         ` David Miller
     [not found]           ` <20120418.001650.1042781402985153056.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-18 12:57             ` Carlos O'Donell
     [not found]               ` <CADZpyixnQMM5WFWLyvEQ=D-tvrqFGe4PC5WdUzxVtdL96NODJQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-18 17:31                 ` David Miller
     [not found]                   ` <20120418.133102.1711079292327461659.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-18 18:48                     ` Carlos O'Donell
2012-04-18 19:23                       ` David Miller [this message]
2012-04-18 22:50             ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]               ` <CAKgNAkh46EMDWpessyi0n-EyNoRid-iW1O1RfUpTtzKDv0mZFw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-18 23:31                 ` David Miller
2012-04-19 10:19                 ` Alan Cox
     [not found]                   ` <20120419111909.616bef70-38n7/U1jhRXW96NNrWNlrekiAK3p4hvP@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 10:33                     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]                       ` <CAKgNAkjZ31JAs0XFutnAozCAcHHAq6pcCAKeDNHccKQ+6uTP6g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 12:11                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-04-18  8:17         ` David Laight
2012-04-18  8:17           ` David Laight
2012-04-18 13:13           ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

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