Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:31:32 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Heiko Wundram \(Beenic\)" <wundram@beenic.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: getting the protocol family of a file descriptor Message-ID: <86zlumvwob.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200801310923.16029.wundram@beenic.net> (Heiko Wundram's message of "Thu\, 31 Jan 2008 09\:23\:15 %2B0100") References: <200801310923.16029.wundram@beenic.net>
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"Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> writes: > I'm currently in the need to get the protocol family that was used to > create a socket (and passed via a unix domain socket to another > program), and I've not really come up with a proper scheme other than > to use getsockname and retrieve sa_family from the resulting socket > (which currently matches the socket domain and historically has, but > why take the chances ;-)). This is the correct way to do it, I don't understand why you think it might not work in the future. > Is there any other "better" way to get at the domain (protocol family) > of a socket? Why should there be a better way? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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