On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:46:48 +0300 Isaac Boukris <ibouk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again, > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Isaac Boukris <ibouk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The unix(7) man page says that null have no special meaning in > > abstract unix domain socket address (the length is specified > > therefore). > > > > However, when such name (embedding null) is used, ss (and netstat) > > will only show up to the first null occurrence (second technically, if > > we count the null prefix). > > e.g. the name "\0/tmp/fo\0.sock" is displayed as: "@/tmp/fo" (whilst > > strace tool shows it as: sun_path=@"/tmp/fo\0.sock"). > > > > Would it be more useful if it printed the whole name and escaped the null? > > If so, would '\0' be ok for escaping the null? > > > Meanwhile, I've got it to escape the null character with with '\0' as > suggested. > Can anyone take a look and advise if I'm on the right track? Thanks! I did a little investigation and current ss behavior matches the output of other commands (netstat and lsof). Therefore I really can't see the motivation to fix this.
