On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 10:48:16PM +0200, Damian Ivanov wrote: > Hello everyone and Happy holidays! > > Some applications (like gnome-boxes) rely on socket path > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/issues/267 > > A lot of flatpaks as well (filled report here > https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3336 ) > > If an organizations username structure is > firstname.lastname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for example my username (more than > one first name, not to mentioned that in some regions middle-name's > are used as well) would be 42 characters which exceeds the limit (17) > mentioned in the gnome BR. > > I could not find any information if having the socket length limited > is still something that is required nowadays as it seems this is > mostly for compatibility reasons? > > Do you think that this us something that could/should/would be changed > nowadays as a config option? > Its part of the unix protocol address specification (see man 7 unix). Its hard coded, and while the Single Unix Specification leaves it undefined, once selected, it becomes part of the ABI, and so it can't easily be changed without breaking older user space applications. Neil > Thanks in advance! > Best Regards, > Damian > _______________________________________________ > kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
