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Re: PATCH: socket: unmetafy the socket name

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: socket: unmetafy the socket name
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:53:41 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 7:29 AM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> +In the invocations below, var(filename) may start with a NUL byte to use
> +the abstract socket namespace where no actual socket file is used. It
> +can also be passed as an empty string to ask the kernel to autoassign a
> +name, in which case that name will be returned in tt(REPLY2) and printed
> +when using the tt(-v) option. This feature may be limited to Linux.

Should this perhaps use the $reply array instead of creating a new
"reserved" scalar?
reply=(sfd sockname)  # for pseudo-example
This could be set even when a name was supplied by the caller.

Follow-Ups:
- PATCH v2: socket: unmetafy the socket name
  - From: Mikael Magnusson

References:
- PATCH: socket: unmetafy the socket name
  - From: Mikael Magnusson

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