How to create Unix Domain Socket with a specific permissions in C?

Question

I have a simple code, like:

sockaddr_un address;
address.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
strcpy(address.sun_path, path);
unlink(path);

int fd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_S         


        

Answer 1

I had the best luck using chmod() (NOT fchmod) using the file name for the unix domain socket after calling socket(), bind(), but, before calling listen().

  int return_value;
  const char *sock_path;
  struct sockaddr_un local;

  sock_path = "/tmp/mysocket";

  sockfd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
  if (sockfd == -1)
  {
    perror("socket");
    exit(-1);
  }

  local.sun_family = AF_UNIX; 
  strcpy(local.sun_path, sock_path);
  unlink(local.sun_path);
  len = strlen(local.sun_path) + sizeof(local.sun_family);
  bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&local, len);

  chmod(sock_path, 0777);

  retval = listen(sockfd, BACKLOG);
  if (retval == -1)
  {
    perror("listen");
    exit(-1);
  }

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