Re: [PATCH v66 0/6] MR2786: Add support for AF_UNIX sockets

[Zebediah Figura (＠zfigura)]

> - unixlib is not easy to use outside of wine itself
> - FIFO is not better as it require unixlib

I'm not talking about unixlib. The whole point of this exercise is to communicate between a Wine process, and a host process that is not run through Wine. I'm saying you can create a named FIFO from the host Unix process and open it from the Wine process like a normal file.

For that matter, you can do the same thing with a non-abstract named Unix socket, which we can just write to as if they were normal character devices—you don't need AF_UNIX support in Wine for that.
> - socket is a big no no as sockets can't filter by user id

It took me a second to realize what you mean. I assume what you're trying to say is "IP sockets won't work, because we want to prevent other users on the same machine from accessing the socket". That makes sense as a restriction.