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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk•ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels•com>,
	Trond.Myklebust@netapp•com, davem@davemloft•net,
	linux-nfs@vger•kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail•com,
	xemul@parallels•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, bfields@fieldses•org,
	viro@zeniv•linux.org.uk, tim.c.chen@linux•intel.com,
	devel@openvz•org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: connect to UNIX sockets from specified root
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:42:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50255618.9080708@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120810194028.792f29f1@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>

On 08/10/2012 11:40 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Agreed on open() for sockets.. the lack of open is a Berklix derived
> pecularity of the interface. It would equally be useful to be able to
> open "/dev/socket/ipv4/1.2.3.4/1135" and the like for scripts and stuff
> 
> That needs VFS changes however so you can pass the remainder of a path to
> a device node. It also lets you do a lot of other sane stuff like
> 
> 	open /dev/ttyS0/9600/8n1
> 

Well, supporting device node subpaths would be nice, but I don't think
that that is a requirement either for being able to open() a socket (as
a Linux extension) nor for supporting something like your above
/dev/socket/... since that could be done with a filesystem rather than
just a device node.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-10 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-10 12:57 [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: connect to UNIX sockets from specified root Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found] ` <20120810125701.7115.71612.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-10 12:57   ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] unix sockets: add ability for search for peer from passed root Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-08-10 18:10     ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]       ` <20120810181002.GB17404-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-10 18:43         ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-08-10 18:15   ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: connect to UNIX sockets from specified root H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-10 18:26     ` Alan Cox
     [not found]       ` <20120810192628.79a34d28-38n7/U1jhRXW96NNrWNlrekiAK3p4hvP@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-10 18:31         ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]           ` <5025537D.9060300-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-10 18:40             ` Alan Cox
2012-08-10 18:42               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-08-10 19:11       ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]         ` <20120810191149.GA17985-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-10 19:28           ` Alan Cox
2012-08-10 23:09             ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]               ` <50259494.8060304-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-11  6:23                 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-11 11:15                   ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-08-13 16:47                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-13 17:39                       ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-08-13 18:24                         ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]                           ` <20120813182431.GA4234-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-14  8:46                             ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-08-10 18:50     ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-08-10 12:57 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] SUNRPC: connect local transports with unix_stream_connect_root() helper Stanislav Kinsbursky

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