[tor-bugs] #3967 [Torbutton]: new identity feature could support ControlSocket

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#3967: new identity feature could support ControlSocket
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 Reporter:  T(A)ILS developers  |          Owner:  mikeperry   
     Type:  enhancement         |         Status:  needs_review
 Priority:  minor               |      Milestone:              
Component:  Torbutton           |        Version:              
 Keywords:                      |         Parent:              
   Points:                      |   Actualpoints:              
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Comment(by lunar):

 Unix domain sockets really are sockets. The file system handle is to be
 treated as an address and cannot be used as a usual file. So
 nsIFile{Input,Output}Stream will not work.

 If I tried to look into Firefox's internals to see if there was a way to
 open a AF_UNIX socket, and it looks like the code is there in NSPR, but
 not there is no XPCOM interface. There is also no XPCOM interface that
 would receive an already open file descriptor, even if there is an
 underlying function that might be used in the netwerk library.

 Pending you do not judge this hack as very wrong, I think I'd like to ship
 it (after some more refinements) in the Debian package, even if it might
 not be welcome in the standard Torbutton. Can you think of a reason not do
 to so?

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