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

Stanislav Kinsbursky [off-list ref] 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".