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Re: Proposal: Add option to add dates to write(1)



> If datagrams are used, the daemon design would be very simple, simply
> handling one message at a time arriving on a single descriptor.  I no
> longer remember if only connected stream sockets receive client
> credentials, [...]

I'd suggest considering doing a datagram send for initial rendezvous
and to get SCM_CREDS, but accompany that datagram send with an
SCM_RIGHTS send of one end of a SOCK_STREAM socketpair over which all
further communication would be carried out (or perhaps two fds, one
each way, allowing the user of pipes instead of a socketpair).

This would, it seems to me, give the best of both worlds.

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