unixlisten

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Index

• func ListenWithRename(path string, mode os.FileMode) (net.Listener, error)

Functions

func ListenWithRename

func ListenWithRename(path string, mode os.FileMode) (net.Listener, error)

ListenWithRename creates a "unix" listener for the given path and the given mode

Go's net.Listen() performs three system calls at once:

• socket, where the file descriptor is created
• bind, where the unix socket file is created
• listen, where the socket can now accept connections

Hence, doing a chmod(2) after Listen is racy because a client can connect between the listen(2) and the chmod(2) calls. One solution would be to use umask(2), but this is tricky to do in a multi-threaded program because it affects other files being created from different threads. Also, other threads may change the umask.

This function, instead, creates the socket file in a private directory, performs the appropriate chmod and only then moves the file to its original location. Not sure about other systems, but at least on Linux renaming a unix socket file after the listen seems to work without issues.