Re: why not remove AF_LOCAL sockets on last close?

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 02:51:45PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:55:51PM -0400, Thor Simon wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me why, exactly, we shouldn't remove bound AF_LOCAL
> > sockets from the filesystem on last close?
> 
> If you want to do that, wouldn't it be easier to just go the Linux route
> and move them into a separate (virtual) namespace completely?

Linux does that?  I ran this test program on a Linux system and got a
socket in the filesystem and the same results.

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Thor Lancelot Simon                                    
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