Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 05:33:22 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net> Subject: Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval Message-ID: <200802041133.m14BXMmW029486@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:30:21 -0600 "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net>
>wrote:
>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?
Sure. Take a look at the man pages for fork(2), vfork(2), and
fork(3f).
>
>As it currently stands, I am looking at doing this with perl.
In that case, take a look at perlfork(1), too.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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