Re: [PATCH 5/8] man/man7/unix.7: SOCK_RAW is accepted as an alias for SOCK_DGRAM

["Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2026 at 05:44:19AM +0000, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:07:57 +0200, Günther Noack wrote:
> > unix_create() in linux.git net/unix/af_unix.c does:
> > 
> > 	case SOCK_RAW:
> > 		sock->type = SOCK_DGRAM;
> > 		fallthrough;
> > 	case SOCK_DGRAM:
> > 
> > so both socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_RAW, 0) and the equivalent socketpair()
> > invocation succeed and create datagram sockets.
> > 
> > Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
> > Assisted-by: LLM
> > Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Notes:
> >     For completeness;
> >     
> >     It is more complete to spell it out, but on the other hand, people
> >     should not be passing the SOCK_RAW type when they really mean
> >     SOCK_DGRAM.  I'm on the fence about whether this is useful.  If you
> >     want to omit this one, it also feels reasonable.
> 
> Yes, please drop this patch.
> 
> There is fallback but only for a historical reason; just to
> support too old BSD program IIRC.
> 
> We should not say it's officially supported when it's just
> converted to SOCK_DGRAM.

Sounds good, dropping it.

–Günther