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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:30:21 -0600
From: "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net>
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Subject: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval
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Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix domain
sockets, but I've been running into the problem of figuring out what
the calling PID is on the other end.

Any suggestions on where I should begin to look?

As it currently stands, I am looking at doing this with perl.