Subject: Re: Use of sun_len in AF_UNIX socket addresses
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/11/2006 23:35:39
On Wed Oct 11 2006 at 22:13:47 +0200, Christian Biere wrote:
> > You can't get rid of it since the kernel uses the same memory layout for
> > the structure.  Of course you could play games, but that's not really
> > a thing I want to see just to hide the field.  You can't set it wrong,
> > so does it really matter?
> 
> A simple way to get rid of it would be renaming "sun_len".

Yes, see "games".  Would we then obfuscate the kernel for the new name
or obfuscate the headers to have two definitions?

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Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                     Of course he runs NetBSD
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