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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: PR 21998 - outgoing ident. 
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> > I've read through and tested the patch, and is seems like a reasonable
> > idea.  Basically, it adds a flag to sockets which have been created
> > via an accept() and then adds a new getcred_outgoing sysctl which
> > works just like getcred but returns EPERM it is not a outgoing
> > socket.

> I think this is the wrong way around.  There is enough information in
> the PCB dump for identd to determine whether the socket was active- or
> passive-open; identd should do the work itself.

I presume you mean that getcred_outgoing should do the work itself
rather than having identd grovel around in the kernel itself? Can
you point me at the field(s) in inpcb I should be looking at?

	David.


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