On Sat, 20.03.10 10:37, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On 03/20/2010 07:48 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > Secondly, as mentioned a unix socket is useless in the fs after the > > program that listened on it exited, > > You mean in the context of a 'shared secret'-named sockets, right? > In general. a socket /tmp/socket can just sit there and be reused > by whatever programs fancy to open it for reading and/or writing. Or > have I misunderstood something in this discussion? No. Unix sockets cannot be reused. If the application that created the socket via calling bind() for the path closed the socket, the socket node is useless in the file system. Another bind() on it will return ADDRINUSE and a connect() on it will return ECONNREFUSED. Only after it was deleted it may be created anew with bind() and then be used again. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
