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Re: Remote pid with SOCK_DGRAM local socket



> I need to get the PID from the remote process when using a SOCK_DGRAM
> local socket.  This seems impossible right now.  Did I miss
> something?

> kern/39108 introduces LOCAL_PROC/SCM_PROC to fix that.  Any reason
> why nobody committed it?

I can only speculate on the latter question.  But it seems to me this
should be part of SCM_CREDS.  Surely it wouldn't be that hard to
version the structure and option to do that?  Or is there some reason
_I_'m missing why that would be a Bad Thing?

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