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Bug#645469: bind() fails for AF_UNIX sockets with EINVAL



2011/10/16 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> More importantly, there is the question you raised of whether this
> should be done in userspace by libc instead.  That would avoid
> upstream having to wonder, "why should we care what happens when
> someone using a BSD4.3-style bind() calls our BSD4.4-style kernel"?
> So it's tempting.

I guess upstream would appreciate if we get rid of the length limit.
It sets the maximum path length for sockets to 104 chars, is that so?

-- 
Robert Millan



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