From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271232AbTGWTL1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:11:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271224AbTGWTAI (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:00:08 -0400 Received: from crosslink-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.254]:12028 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271223AbTGWS75 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:59:57 -0400 Subject: Re: kernel bug in socketpair() From: Alan Cox To: Glenn Fowler Cc: davem@redhat.com, dgk@research.att.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <200307231854.OAA90112@raptor.research.att.com> References: <200307231428.KAA15254@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723074615.25eea776.davem@redhat.com> <200307231656.MAA69129@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723100043.18d5b025.davem@redhat.com> <200307231724.NAA90957@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723103135.3eac4cd2.davem@redhat.com> <200307231814.OAA74344@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723112307.5b8ae55c.davem@redhat.com> <200307231854.OAA90112@raptor.research.att.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1058987301.5520.111.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 23 Jul 2003 20:08:21 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 19:54, Glenn Fowler wrote: > named unix sockets reside in the fs namespace, no? > so they must be linked to a dir before use and unlinked after use > the unlink after use would be particularly tricky for the parent process > implementing > cmd <(cmd ...) ... Portable stuff yes, Linux also supports a pure socket namespace for them when the path starts with a nul character