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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 2021 09:48:23 -0800
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To:        Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What to use in place of abstract unix sockets?
Message-ID:  <44CC9776-D2C1-4B37-8758-3D94C35AE97A@iitbombay.org>
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On Dec 7, 2021, at 10:44 PM, Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFHello hackers.
>=20
> I'm porting a software that does the following things on Linux:
>=20
> 1. Binds an abstract UDS (the socket name starts with '\0')
> 2. Launches a "client" process.
> 3. "Client" uses chroot() to constrain itself in a sort of jail.
> 4. "Client" connects to the abstract UDS.
>=20
> =46rom what I can tell, this works because abstract UDS's do not use the
> filesystem namespace, which is why "client" can connect out of the
> chroot'ed environment.
>=20
> What can I do to make this software work for FreeBSD? Simply using regular=

> UDS instead of abstract ones doesn't work for obvious reasons - the
> "client" can't find the socket file.
>=20
> Thanks in advance.

Can you not pass one end of unix domain socketpair via sendmsg/recvmsg?=



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