Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:27:48 +0300 From: Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A bug with getsockopt(SOL_LOCAL, LOCAL_PEERCRED) ? Message-ID: <CALH631mi0xOQGjd6F3Beu_BQdqAx8RYCrbkUi524F8S4rwo1aA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E6626DFC-2014-412C-AEA2-ECE57835B058@yahoo.com> References: <CALH631kLCApctk4iQJj6br0Pzeb6qsh9g3jz_SA8hH91ftQGDQ@mail.gmail.com> <YHiQ6qEjS2w8uYpS@kib.kiev.ua> <CALH631=3hqvfraume467OM%2BqGqp854sGJFfhO8b61mF%2BkbsJ2Q@mail.gmail.com> <E6626DFC-2014-412C-AEA2-ECE57835B058@yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 10:58 PM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > The way I read the above quote and your code and > related documentation: s2 after the accept4 assignment > is specific to the client's specific connect and > will give access to the connected user's credentials > --but s is not specific to the specific connect in > question (after that assignment or later) and would > not give the information that you indicate that you > want: you need a connection-specific identifier. > > In other words, it looks to me like what you quoted > agrees with what Konstantin reported. > > === > Mark Millard > marklmi at yahoo.com > ( dsl-only.net went > away in early 2018-Mar) > > This makes sense, thanks. However, this code works on Linux and seems to return credentials of the user that started the process. I actually stumbled upon this when porting this code: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/blob/master/net/Socket.cpp#L805 Would it make sense if FreeBSD followed Linux semantics in this case? If not, what are my options for porting the software?
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