On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 05:02:54PM +0200, Damian Ivanov wrote: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2019, 14:17 Neil Horman, <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >Right, Usually the workaround is to >convert to using anonymous sockets, > > >storing > > >correlary information to find the >socket later using non-fs based > > >methods. > > > > >Neil > > > > IIRC this would be done at an application level. This issue here is IMHO > > with flatpak applications (many electron applications, gnome boxes and > > others) to work by incident basically, as the default cache config an data > > paths is HOME/var/.App/appid > > A slightly longer username already breaks all these flatpak > applications. > So, is it flatpak thats creating these sockets then? If thats the case, maybe adjust flatpak to store sockets in /tmp/<nonce>/<id>, and symlink to them from $HOME/var/.App/appid? Alternatively, just store text files in $HOME/var/.app/appid, and store the socket descriptor that you want to use in said text file Neil > > > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 12:39 AM Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > 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
