We are the client, so we should be using connect(2) instead of bind(2), otherwise when using non-abstract Unix sockets we will get an error that the address is already in use. This breaks the notify support in dpkg's start-stop-daemon. --- src/shared/mainloop-notify.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/shared/mainloop-notify.c b/src/shared/mainloop-notify.c index 89a880006..1de714a0e 100644 --- a/src/shared/mainloop-notify.c +++ b/src/shared/mainloop-notify.c @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ void mainloop_notify_init(void) if (addr.sun_path[0] == '@') addr.sun_path[0] = '\0'; - if (bind(notify_fd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0) { + if (connect(notify_fd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0) { close(notify_fd); notify_fd = -1; return; -- 2.24.1.658.g99f4b37f93