[erlang-questions] unix domain sockets with abstract namespace: can't use all 108 bytes

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

> On 29/04/2017, at 12:28 AM, Raimo Niskanen <raimo+erlang-questions@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> It is difficult to reliably detect the other direction i.e in the driver
> when you get an address from e.g getsockname(); is it an empty string or an
> abstract address?

Surely an empty string would never have been legal,
so if the first byte is NUL and the host supports abstract
addresses, it must be an abstract address?