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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 06:54:27 +0200
From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@opsec.eu>
To: "James Alastair McLaughlin (PGR)" <j.a.mclaughlin@newcastle.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Status of SO_PASSCRED in Linux compatibility
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Hi!

> After some googling, I've found a patch[3] from 2010 to implement
> SO_PASSCRED that it seems has never been merged.  Does anyone know
> why, and if there are any plans to merge it?

Can you test if the patch still applies ? And that it works ?

Then submit it via bugs.freebsd.org ?

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pi@opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                         3 years to go !