bus: touch() the AF_UNIX sockets we listen() on after the fact

We'd like to use inotify to get notified when AF_UNIX sockets become
connectable. That happens at the moment of listen(), but this is doesn't
necessarily create in a watchable inotify event. Hence, let's synthesize
one whenever we generically create a socket, or when we know we created
it for a D-Bus server.

Ideally we wouldn't have to do this, and the kernel would generate an
event anyway for this. Doing this explicitly isn't too bad however, as
the event is still nicely associated with the AF_UNIX socket node, and
we generate all D-Bus sockets in our code hence it's safe.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/socket-label.c b/src/basic/socket-label.c
index e67a5cfe6a..97f3ebe2af 100644
--- a/src/basic/socket-label.c
+++ b/src/basic/socket-label.c
@@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ int socket_address_listen(
                 if (listen(fd, backlog) < 0)
                         return -errno;
 
+        /* Let's trigger an inotify event on the socket node, so that anyone waiting for this socket to be connectable
+         * gets notified */
+        if (p)
+                (void) touch(p);
+
         r = fd;
         fd = -1;
 
diff --git a/src/core/dbus.c b/src/core/dbus.c
index b7d8af9396..115d071eb4 100644
--- a/src/core/dbus.c
+++ b/src/core/dbus.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include "dbus-unit.h"
 #include "dbus.h"
 #include "fd-util.h"
+#include "fs-util.h"
 #include "log.h"
 #include "missing.h"
 #include "mkdir.h"
@@ -1005,6 +1006,9 @@ static int bus_init_private(Manager *m) {
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(errno, "Failed to make private socket listening: %m");
 
+        /* Generate an inotify event in case somebody waits for this socket to appear using inotify() */
+        (void) touch(sa.un.sun_path);
+
         r = sd_event_add_io(m->event, &s, fd, EPOLLIN, bus_on_connection, m);
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to allocate event source: %m");