Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | getpeereid() for Linux | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | 05 Sep 2001 11:14:41 +0200 |
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Would anyone like to give me a helping hand in implementing the getpeereid() syscall for Linux? See the following page for the documentation of the OpenBSD implementation:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getpeereid&sektion=2&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current
I think I could work out the kernel data structures to gather the relevant data from, however, I won't get all the locking stuff right.
OTOH, is there any chance that the addition of such a syscall would be accepted?
Thanks to /proc, it is possible to implement the user ID part of the syscall in userland, at least for TCP sockets, but this isn't enough. (I've got a such an implementation which seems to work quite well, just in case you are interested.)
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