GUnixSocketAddressType

The type of name used by a #GUnixSocketAddress. gio.types.UnixSocketAddressType.Path indicates a traditional unix domain socket bound to a filesystem path. gio.types.UnixSocketAddressType.Anonymous indicates a socket not bound to any name (eg, a client-side socket, or a socket created with socketpair()).

For abstract sockets, there are two incompatible ways of naming them; the man pages suggest using the entire struct sockaddr_un as the name, padding the unused parts of the sun_path field with zeroes; this corresponds to gio.types.UnixSocketAddressType.AbstractPadded. However, many programs instead just use a portion of sun_path, and pass an appropriate smaller length to bind() or connect(). This is gio.types.UnixSocketAddressType.Abstract.

Values

ValueMeaning
Invalid0

invalid

Anonymous1

anonymous

Path2

a filesystem path

Abstract3

an abstract name

AbstractPadded4

an abstract name, 0-padded to the full length of a unix socket name