From:             pz4u at vplace dot de
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      5.2.5
PHP Bug Type:     Sockets related
Bug description:  UNIX abstract namespace socket connects only work sometimes

Description:
------------
I'm currently developing a binding for D-BUS based on native PHP. For that
reason I need to talk to abstract namespace sockets. It seems like PHP is
handling these socket type differently than D-BUS. I can't connect to the
abstract socket.

I asked for help on the php-general mailing list and got some helpful
responses for further investigation:
http://marc.info/?t=120291320800005&r=1&w=2

After that I asked on the D-BUS mailing list for clarification how D-BUS
implements abstract namespace support:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2008-February/009303.html

As pointed out by Havoc on the dbus mailing list I think the problem is
here:
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/sockets/sockets.c?revision=1.197&view=markup
or in the stream version of this API (not sure if it uses the same
functions).

- I'm wondering why 108 is hardcoded here (in the connect function). A
constant might be better?
- "If the connect() or listen() just does sizeof(struct sockaddr_un) then
it will always get a bunch of trailing garbage bytes in the abstract name."
(quoted Havoc here)
- Even if their is no NUL byte to mark the end of the string PHP should
only use non-nul byte characters for the path (or better: the string that
has been given by the programmer.) If a programmer want's to fill up
sun_path with NUL bytes, it should be added to the PHP code and not
"assumed".

I'm not a C programmer - so the code in sockets.c might just do what I
wrote - I'm sorry for any inconveniences in this case.

This seems to be a regression of bug #16121

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
// use env to find a current abstract D-BUS socket

$fp = fsockopen ("unix://\x00/tmp/dbus-whatever",0);
if ($fp) { fclose ($fp); }
?>

Expected result:
----------------
A connect with \x00/tmp/dbus-whatever (without added NUL bytes until the
maximum sun path length is reached).

Actual result:
--------------
fsockopen:
fsockopen(): unable to connect to unix://:0 (Connection refused)

for unix://\x00/tmp/dbus-whatever which is a bit strange because I
expected at least the error message "fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]:
unable to connect to unix://[NUL byte]/tmp/dbus-whatever:0 (Connection
refused)"

stream_socket_client:
stream_socket_client: unable to connect to
unix://\0/tmp/hald-local/dbus-ZniNmvr5O0 (Connection refused) in ...

socket_connect:
Warning: socket_connect(): unable to connect
[22]: Invalid argument in ...

I can garantuee that the arguments are right - removing the NUL byte from
socket_connect allows me to connect to a non-abstract socket.

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