From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 01:37:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] udevd - switch socket path to abstract namespace Message-Id: <20040205013735.GA6525@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040205010748.GA1247@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20040205010748.GA1247@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:07:48AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: >=20 > As Chris Friesen suggested, here we switch > the unix domains socket path to abstract namespace and get rid of the > socket file in the filesystem. >=20 > Hey, this was new to me today. So here a few words: > Linux supports a abstract namespace for sockets. We don't need a > physical file on the filesystem but only a unique string magically > starting with the '\0' character. >=20 > strace with real file: > connect(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path=3D"/udev/.udevd.sock"}, 110) >=20 > strace with abstract namespace: > connect(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path=3D@udevd}, 110) That's nice to know. Applied, thanks. greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel