From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix handling of overlength pathname in AF_UNIX sun_path
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:44:03 +0100
Message-ID: <20120418204403.3eb7d994@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
References: <4F8D497F.8060601@gmail.com>
	<20120417105107.GA8614@1wt.eu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120417105107.GA8614@1wt.eu>
Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org

I think its pointless.

Yes there may have been a case years ago to nul terminate but thats now
how 4BSD defined the API so that's how the world looks.

It helps nobody on the app side because they'll be defensively coding for
the existing API for another ten years for enterprise distros anyway.

Alan