Re: [PATCH v25 0/7] MR2786: Add support for AF_UNIX sockets

[Ally Sommers (＠dropbear)]

On Fri Jun 16 17:31:20 2023 +0000, Zebediah Figura wrote:
> This can't work, though; we need to convert it to Unix first. (Or print
> a FIXME and fail for DGRAM sockets.)
> Linux man-pages call out returning sizeof(sockaddr_un) as okay on Linux,
> but is it portable? We may want to return strlen()+1 just to be safe.
> Converting the path cannot realistically be done due to size differences for the same path:
$ echo -n 'C:\tmp\foo.sock' | wc -c
15
$ winepath 'C:\tmp\foo.sock' | tr -d '\n' | wc -c
47

For the same reason as needing to change directories to actually bind and connect, path translation in these functions and their server equivalents is not feasible.

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https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/2786#note_36046