unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

[Scott Bennett]

>     On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:30:21 -0600 "Zane C.B." <v.velox at 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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