Hi Lennart, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:16:40AM +0100, Lennart Kolmodin wrote:
I've added proposal #1699 to fix abstract unix sockets on Linux for the network library.
You haven't suggested a deadline; between the GHC release and ICFP et al, perhaps 15 Oct would make sense?
The patch is so far only tested under Linux (2.6.15), but should not affect Windows or other OSes which does not have AUS.
So if I understand correctly, with this patch certain paths would be treated differently, but only on Linux machines? If someone tries to use AUS on a non-Linux system, will things break horribly? i.e. would it be better to have a separate package/module for this Linux-specific behaviour?
Also, due to much more socklen usage: * Switch Network.Socket to use CSockLen instead of CInt. * Cleanup surrounding code.
It would be better for code fixes and cleanup to be in a separate patch from new functionality; this part sounds like it should definitely be applied. Thanks Ian