Re: UNIX domain socket hanging around when not closed

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 16:56, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>       - There could pre-exist the named socket (at a R/O
>         filesystem), and no new name needs to be allocated
>         in the filesystem for it.
> 
>       - The entire named entity would not be allowed to
>         exist purely in VFS space, that is: creation wise
>         the permission verification could ignore location
>         directory being on a read/only file system, and
>         just use directory permissions.  (Questions about
>         memory expenditure, etc.  all kinds of trade-offs.)

Linux has a non file system name space for AF_UNIX sockets too. But its
a Linux extension