Unix socket forwarding

[William Ahern]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 04:40:22PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 04:11 PM, William Ahern wrote:
> > I'm intimately aware of the details. Outside of the core developers and a
> > small cadre of hackers I probably became more familiar with the OpenSSH
> > codebase than anyone else. It's an intrusive patch and required additions to
> > the underlying protocol, fixes to options parsing code, and a refactoring of
> > several data structures and related code. The fact that X11 forwarding
> > already exists--as pointed out by the OP--turns out to not matter one iota
> > because of the SSH protocol spec and the architecture of OpenSSH in
> > particular.
> 
> yikes!  I can see why something this hairy would make upstream shy.  Are
> the extensions to the protocol documented someplace?  I couldn't find
> them at http://www.25thandclement.com/~william/projects/streamlocal.html
> 

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