diff --git a/contrib/seccomp-notify-plugin-rust/src/seccompwatcher.rs b/contrib/seccomp-notify-plugin-rust/src/seccompwatcher.rs
index 974d83855f..d2872674d2 100644
--- a/contrib/seccomp-notify-plugin-rust/src/seccompwatcher.rs
+++ b/contrib/seccomp-notify-plugin-rust/src/seccompwatcher.rs
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ type Errno = i32;
 
 type SyscallHandler = fn(req: &mut nc::seccomp_notif_t) -> Result<bool, Errno>;
 
-#[no_mangle]
 pub struct LibcrunLoadSeccompNotifyConf {
     _runtime_root_path: *const c_char,
     _name: *const c_char,
diff --git a/src/libcrun/utils.c b/src/libcrun/utils.c
index b1effe8d5c..27cb92174b 100644
--- a/src/libcrun/utils.c
+++ b/src/libcrun/utils.c
@@ -878,12 +878,24 @@ open_unix_domain_client_socket (const char *path, int dgram, libcrun_error_t *er
 {
   struct sockaddr_un addr = {};
   int ret;
-  cleanup_close int fd = socket (AF_UNIX, dgram ? SOCK_DGRAM : SOCK_STREAM, 0);
+  char name_buf[32];
+  cleanup_close int destfd = -1;
+  cleanup_close int fd = -1;
+
+  fd = socket (AF_UNIX, dgram ? SOCK_DGRAM : SOCK_STREAM, 0);
   if (UNLIKELY (fd < 0))
     return crun_make_error (err, errno, "error creating UNIX socket");
 
   if (strlen (path) >= sizeof (addr.sun_path))
-    return crun_make_error (err, 0, "invalid path %s specified", path);
+    {
+      destfd = open (path, O_PATH);
+      if (UNLIKELY (destfd < 0))
+        return crun_make_error (err, errno, "error opening `%s`", path);
+
+      sprintf (name_buf, "/proc/self/fd/%d", destfd);
+      path = name_buf;
+    }
+
   strcpy (addr.sun_path, path);
   addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
   ret = connect (fd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof (addr));
@@ -901,12 +913,16 @@ open_unix_domain_socket (const char *path, int dgram, libcrun_error_t *err)
 {
   struct sockaddr_un addr = {};
   int ret;
+  char name_buf[32];
   cleanup_close int fd = socket (AF_UNIX, dgram ? SOCK_DGRAM : SOCK_STREAM, 0);
   if (UNLIKELY (fd < 0))
     return crun_make_error (err, errno, "error creating UNIX socket");
 
   if (strlen (path) >= sizeof (addr.sun_path))
-    return crun_make_error (err, 0, "invalid path %s specified", path);
+    {
+      sprintf (name_buf, "/proc/self/fd/%d", fd);
+      path = name_buf;
+    }
   strcpy (addr.sun_path, path);
   addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
   ret = bind (fd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof (addr));