[Lxc-users] fail to connect to a af_unix socket created within LXC

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting mohammed dahdouh (meodou at gmail.com):
> Hi all,
> I have a problem with running connecting to a unix domain socket
> created within a LXC container.
> The call to connect() fails with ECONNREFUSED (connection refused).
> 
> Doing the inverse is working (af_unix socket created in the host and
> the client socket within the container).
> 
> I m using lxc-0.7.5 + kernel 2.6.32.
> I found that a kernel with version >= 2.6.35 is needed (cf.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01971.html
> ) how correct is that?

Odd question.  It's correct.  Specifically commit
6616f7888c6088324727363276f6de05a1dca6fc enabled it, but it depends on
some prior commits to make cross-namespace SCM credentials work
correctly.  You can find them pretty easily looking through the git
history of net/unix.