Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: socket bind to file descriptor introduced

From: Ben Pfaff <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:52:53 -0700

Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email-masked]> writes:

> This system call is especially required for UNIX sockets, which has name
> lenght limitation.

The worst of the name length limitations can be worked around by
opening the directory where the socket is to go as a file
descriptor, then using /proc/self/fd/<fd>/<basename> as the name
of the socket.  This technique also works with "connect" and in
other contexts where a struct sockaddr is needed.  At first
glance, it looks like your patches only help with "bind".