Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: connect to UNIX sockets from specified root
From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-13 17:40:00
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13.08.2012 20:47, J. Bruce Fields пишет:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 03:15:24PM +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:quoted
11.08.2012 10:23, Pavel Emelyanov пишет:quoted
On 08/11/2012 03:09 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:quoted
On 08/10/2012 12:28 PM, Alan Cox wrote:quoted
Explicitly for Linux yes - this is not generally true of the AF_UNIX socket domain and even the permissions aspect isn't guaranteed to be supported on some BSD environments !Yes, but let's worry about what the Linux behavior should be.quoted
The name is however just a proxy for the socket itself. You don't even get a device node in the usual sense or the same inode in the file system space.No, but it is looked up the same way any other inode is (the difference between FIFOs and sockets is that sockets have separate connections, which is also why open() on sockets would be nice.) However, there is a fundamental difference between AF_UNIX sockets and open(), and that is how the pathname is delivered. It thus would make more sense to provide the openat()-like information in struct sockaddr_un, but that may be very hard to do in a sensible way. In that sense it perhaps would be cleaner to be able to do an open[at]() on the socket node with O_PATH (perhaps there should be an O_SOCKET option, even?) and pass the resulting file descriptor to bind() or connect().I vote for this (openat + O_WHATEVER on a unix socket) as well. It will help us in checkpoint-restore, making handling of overmounted/unlinked sockets much cleaner.I have to notice, that it's not enough and doesn't solve the issue. There should be some way how to connect/bind already existent unix socket (from kernel, at least), because socket can be created in user space. And this way (sock operation or whatever) have to provide an ability to lookup UNIX socket starting from specified root to support containers.I don't understand--the rpcbind sockets are created by the kernel. What am I missing?
Kernel preform connect to rpcbind socket (i.e. user-space binds it), doesn't it?
--b.