PERFORCE change 105906 for review
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 28 11:15:58 PDT 2006
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> It may happen that implementing delivery of the process ID of the other side
> of the socket - feature not available AFAIK in the FreeBSD right now - will
> impose on us much deeper dive into internal socket structures.
The notion of "The process ID on the other side of a socket" is nonsensical.
There may be zero, one, or many processes hooked up to a socket. The
situations in which you can point clearly at a process or credential are the
process/credential that called connect (if any), and the process/credential
that sent a message. This is the distinction between LOCAL_CREDS and
SCM_CREDS, FYI.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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