dkg, I understand that GnuPG does not work with such a homedir, however, it is
not the act of creating the socket that is problematic. In fact, both
bind(2)ing and connect(2)ing is ok if one uses relative paths, as demonstrated
by the test program I have attached here.
Here is the program binding and connecting to a socket with an absolute path
length of ~10 * sizeof sockaddr_un.sun_path:
System: OpenBSD:6.0:GENERIC.MP#1992
sizeof addr.sun_path: 104
Running test with strlen (cwd): 22, name: '/tmp/test-unix-sockets/socket'
Running test with strlen (cwd): 22, name: 'socket'
Running test with strlen (cwd): 126, name: 'socket'
Running test with strlen (cwd): 1062, name: 'socket'
This works on all Unices that I have access to. I've asked on gnupg-devel@ for
people to run it elsewhere.
I understand that '--create-socketdir' solves problems besides this one. But I
disagree with the statement that our handling of socket paths is unproblematic
because --create-socketdir solves this problem.