* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> > Concerning the immediate fix for non-Windows systems, does any modern system
> > ignore modes of Unix domain sockets? It appears to be a long-fixed problem:
>
> What I was envisioning was that we'd be relying on the permissions of the
> containing directory to keep out bad guys. Permissions on the socket
> itself might be sufficient, but what does it save us to assume that?
Agreed- the general approach to this, from what I've seen, is to handle
it with the directory.
Thanks,
Stephen