[PATCH] accept SOCKS request over the mux socket

[William Ahern]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:06:48PM -0700, Robert Banz wrote:
> >
> > There is a problem with it and is that slashes already have an  
> > special meaning on tunnel specifications , they are used with IPv6  
> > addresses.
> >
> > My proposal (not implemented on the patch yet) would be to use {} to  
> > demarcate unix paths as in
> >
> > $ ssh -D{/tmp/bar} ...
> >
> > and
> >
> >  $ ssh -L{/tmp/foo}:host:22 ...
> >

Many moons ago I wrote a patch to do exactly this:

	http://www.25thandclement.com/~william/projects/streamlocal.html

I think that was before mux sockets were even available. At the time,
patching OpenSSH to grok domain sockets in all the right places was a
gigantic PITA. Nobody showed interest in the patch, perhaps because it was
quite large. The patch works, though; running 24/7 on tens of thousands of
boxes as we speak.