Re: [patch] Fix handling of overlength pathname in AF_UNIX sun_path

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:57:58 -0400

> In summary your opinion is that the API has and always will allow up
> to 108 chars to be used in sun_path?

Yes.

> In which case I will talk to the Austin group to get a good example
> added to POSIX showing safe usage.

Why would you add language to POSIX for Linux specific behavior?
Just curious :-)
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