Re: [PATCH 00/11] sockets: Attempt to drain the abstract socket swamp

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 29/10/20 14:38, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> In my opinion, the Linux-specific abstract UNIX domain socket feature
>> introduced in 5.1 should have been rejected.  The feature is niche,
>> the interface clumsy, the implementation buggy and incomplete, and the
>> test coverage insufficient.  Review fail.
>> 
>> Fixing the parts we can still fix now is regrettably expensive.  If I
>> had the power to decide, I'd unceremoniously revert the feature,
>> compatibility to 5.1 be damned.  But I don't, so here we go.
>> 
>> I'm not sure this set of fixes is complete.  However, I already spent
>> too much time on this, so out it goes.  Lightly tested.
>> 
>> Regardless, I *will* make time for ripping the feature out if we
>> decide to do that.  Quick & easy way to avoid reviewing this series
>> *hint* *hint*.
>
> Apart from the nits pointed out in patch 7 (commit message) and 8 (code),
>
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>
> Thanks, and don't forget to fix the hole that your head has left in the
> wall.

Thanks for the review, and thanks for cheering my up!