On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 10:48:16PM +0200, Damian Ivanov wrote:
Hello everyone and Happy holidays!
Some applications (like gnome-boxes) rely on socket path
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/issues/267
A lot of flatpaks as well (filled report here
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3336 )
If an organizations username structure is
firstname.lastname(a)organization.org for example my username (more than
one first name, not to mentioned that in some regions middle-name's
are used as well) would be 42 characters which exceeds the limit (17)
mentioned in the gnome BR.
I could not find any information if having the socket length limited
is still something that is required nowadays as it seems this is
mostly for compatibility reasons?
Do you think that this us something that could/should/would be changed
nowadays as a config option?
Its part of the unix protocol address specification (see man 7 unix). Its hard
coded, and while the Single Unix Specification leaves it undefined, once
selected, it becomes part of the ABI, and so it can't easily be changed without
breaking older user space applications.
Neil
Thanks in advance!
Best Regards,
Damian
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