Accessing Session Bus through the superuser

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 17 March 2008 19:12:57 Avery Pennarun wrote:
> Perhaps that's why nobody else uses abstract sockets for anything.
> The world has worked pretty smoothly for years with X11 and syslog
> sockets being concrete, for example.  I'm not sure what the advantage
> of abstract sockets is supposed to be.

People don't use abstract sockets because it's a new thing. It's only 
available on Linux as far as I know (so it's not really cross-platform) and 
in recent kernels.

The advantage of it is that you don't have to remember to unlink() the file 
later.

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