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Re: abstract Unix-domain sockets

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

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From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-11-24T15:49:30Z
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:45 AM Peter Eisentraut <
peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> We're subject to whatever the kernel behavior is.  If the kernel doesn't
> report address conflicts for Unix-domain sockets, then we can't do
> anything about that.  Having an error message ready in case the kernel
> does report such an error is not useful if it never does.
>

It's a file, we can check for its existence in user-space.

David J.

Commits

  1. Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets

  2. Make error hint from bind() failure more accurate

  3. Remove obsolete ifdefs