unix domain socket

[whyrusleeping]

would be neat if we could have multiaddrs to represent unix domain sockets

[jbenet]

yes would be nice.

/uds/path/to/sock
or
/unix/path/to/sock

?

hard to tell --then-- when a uds addr ends without looking into the fs. opens up the door for certain attacks. It may be useful --then-- to constrain the actual sock file (the last component member of uds to always say .uds or .sock or something. this is already typical, but making it required would save us headaches.

[ghost]

We already have /unix

[infinity0]

@lgierth how does one escape the slashes in a typical filepath?

/unix/home/tcp/80/no/wait/my/username/really/is/tcp/honest/tcp/80?

[Stebalien]

One does not. Unfortunately, /unix is currently a terminal path. That is, everything after /unix is a path.

There are a bunch of discussions (e.g. multiformats/multiaddr#63) in the mutliaddr repo trying to figure this out.

[infinity0]

Ah, thanks for the pointer.