Re: Remote pid with SOCK_DGRAM local socket

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 13 May 2011 07:14:10 +0000
Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 01:27:55AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > That race condition exists for any method of passing PID information.
> (...)
> > except that it has a separate SCM_* data blob for the extended information,
> > rather than versioning the existing *_CREDS stuff.
> 
> Right, I now have the reason why it did not get in-tree: it seems to be a 
> can of worms :-)

Would this still matter for a service such as syslogd?
How about the UID?  Because when I submitted the diff that's mostly
what I needed for datagrams.

Thanks,
-- 
Matt