Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:59:29 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys un.h unpcb.h src/sys/kern uipc_proto.c uipc_usrreq.c src/share/man/man4 unix.4 Message-ID: <20010818095929.A80595@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20010817222656.C01B43E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:26:51PM -0700 References: <20010817222445.304233E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <20010817222656.C01B43E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:26:51PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> writes: > > Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> writes: > > > <<On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:01:18 -0700 (PDT), Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > > > > > Implement a LOCAL_PEERCRED socket option which returns a > > > > `struct xucred` with the credentials of the connected peer. > > > > > > It should return `struct cmsgcred' instead -- no need for more than > > > one socket credential structure. > > > > Okay, I'll change it, but I wish you'd have told me about this when it > > was up for discussion on -arch or -audit. > > Actually, I think `struct cmsgcred` won't work in this case, since > there's no reasonable value for the cmesg_pid field. This socket > option is supposed to return the credentials at the time of connect(2) > or listen(2), and the process that made that call may not even exist > anymore. The xucred structure is also used by the getcred sysctls used by identd. This is also a case where the process that the creds belong to may be long gone. (In this case it gives the creds of the caller of socket(2)). David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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