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Date:      Wed, 8 Dec 2021 14:50:08 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What to use in place of abstract unix sockets?
Message-ID:  <9ca80eac-e24a-802d-fae0-6a2146c4a825@grosbein.net>
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08.12.2021 13:43, Gleb Popov wrote:

> Hello hackers.
> 
> I'm porting a software that does the following things on Linux:
> 
> 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.
> 
>>>From 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

If they are parent/child, you could try using socketpair().




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