[PATH] support for UNIX socket in abstract namespace

[Roberto De Ioris]

> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 04:18:30PM +0200, Roberto De Ioris wrote:
>> (Warning this is Linux only)
>>
>> Hi all, the attached path adds support for unix socket in abstract
>> namespace.
>> They are special sockets without filesystem correspondence (so you can
>> use
>> them without thinking about permissions or in chroot). In netstat they
>> are
>> reported with a '@' prefix.
>>
>> For example (using uWSGI):
>>
>> uwsgi -s @funnysock
>>
>> netstat -l
>>
>> unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     23813    @funnysock
>>
>> After applying the patch you can connect to it with
>>
>> uwsgi_pass unix:@funnysock;
>>
>> I hope it can be useful
>
> Thank you for the feature. I think it's better to allow nginx
> configuration
> parser to support "\0" as binary 0. Then this socket may be set as
>
> uwsgi_pass   unix:\0funnysock;
>

I fear it will require changes changes as 0 being the token delimeter in
config parsing :(


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