>so you can't create a UNIX domain socket if the entire path is longer >than 104 characters - trailing null = 103 characters.
errrrrrrrrr - what? :D > rdiff-backup must be copying these files to a path with a prefix > longer than 79 characters. I don't know why it'd be doing so on this > day but not others, but I'm not familiar with its internal format. no - my prefix is definetely shorter than 79 chars roland > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Scott Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gesendet: 13.05.06 21:28:04 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long > On May 13, 2006, at 4:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > $ zcat error_log.2006-04-29T02\:18\:43+02\:00.data.gz > > SpecialFileError var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock AF_UNIX path too long > > SpecialFileError var/run/authdaemon.courier-imap/socket Socket > > error: AF_UNIX path too long > > > > does anybody have a clue, what this means and why this only > > happened on april 29 ? > > I can answer the first half of your question: > > /* > * [XSI] Definitions for UNIX IPC domain. > */ > struct sockaddr_un { > unsigned char sun_len; /* sockaddr len including > null */ > sa_family_t sun_family; /* [XSI] AF_UNIX */ > char sun_path[104]; /* [XSI] path name (gag) */ > }; > > <http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Modules/socketmodule.c? > view=log> in getsockaddrarg: > > if (len >= sizeof addr->sun_path) { > PyErr_SetString(socket_error, > "AF_UNIX path too > long"); > return 0; > } > > so you can't create a UNIX domain socket if the entire path is longer > than 104 characters - trailing null = 103 characters. > > I'm not sure if the OS would accept a longer one if you allocated a > larger memory region and set sun_len appropriately, but you > definitely can't do it with a current version of Python. > > rdiff-backup must be copying these files to a path with a prefix > longer than 79 characters. I don't know why it'd be doing so on this > day but not others, but I'm not familiar with its internal format. > > -- > Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/> > > _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192 _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
