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authorMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>2022-03-25 14:39:14 +0400
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>2022-07-15 16:26:54 +0100
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spec: try to improve comment about AF_UNIX path
The comment refers to the nul-padding of sockaddr_un member sun_path and using an addrlen of sizeof(sockaddr_un). There is not much need to document an old now "broken" behaviour. Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
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</para>
<para>
- When a socket is opened by the D-Bus library it truncates the path
- name right before the first trailing Nul byte. This is true for both
- normal paths and abstract paths. Note that this is a departure from
- previous versions of D-Bus that would create sockets with a fixed
- length path name. Names which were shorter than the fixed length
- would be padded by Nul bytes.
+ When a Unix socket is opened by the D-Bus library, the socket address
+ length does not include the whole <literal>struct sockaddr_un</literal>,
+ but only the length of the pathname or abstract string (beside other
+ fields).
</para>
<para>
Unix domain sockets are not available on Windows.