Hi Sam, (Always worth CCing me as well as the list, if you want my attention on a bug report.) On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It looks like the kernel -- at least 2.6.27.5 -- rejects with EINVAL a > bind() of an AF_UNIX socket whose given size exceeds sizeof(struct > sockaddr_un). > > Even if I make arrangements for a larger structure to accomodate a path that > exceeds sockaddr_un's 107 bytes + \0, and I specify the actual size of the > structure, bind() fails for me. > > I don't have the details, but I'm pretty sure other unixes accept domain > sockets with larger filenames. Are you sure of that? Offhand, I don't know of such implementations, but it's been a while since I tested this. Which systems have you seen this on? > There, the sockaddr_un structure exists for > historical reasons, and you can pretty much roll your own. > > This is perhaps worth mentioning in the description of EINVAL in unix(7). I'm not (yet) convinced. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
