Hello, the attached patch fixes abstract sockets for Linux. It least it tries as it does not work: strace output from dbus-monitor: socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/tmp/dbus-RhgMDI9FXg"...}, 23) = 0 strace output from my app using iolib: socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 5 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/tmp/dbus-RhgMDI9FXg"...}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) It seems as if connect (and bind) have to be passed "exact" sizes as addrlen parameter. But what is a good (i.e. portable) way to compute these? Using (+ 3 (length address)) (counting the address family word, the zero byte, and the string) would be quite a hack... Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't. - Erik Naggum (in comp.lang.lisp)