messagebus AF_UNIX listening socket

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 23:45 +0200, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote:
> And what now?
> If we change the current implementation we would break the backwards 
> compatibility (maybe we could try this at some point in the future with 
> some other conflicting changes) so for now maybe just document that the 
> address is padded with zeros? It really causes much confusion when you 
> try to connect to the message bus w/o using the reference 
> implementation. (and the spec clearly states that it should be easy to 
> write alternative implementations using only the specification ;)

I think it would be OK to make the incompatible change (we can put it in
along with a few others at some point prior to 1.0)

But someone has to check that the change actually works ... 

Havoc