Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Steve Grubb wrote:
>> +    uptr->uid = getuid();
>> +    uptr->gid = getgid();
>> +    uptr->pid = getpid();
> 
> You don't have to do that.  The kernel will fill in the fields.  If this
> would not happen then all this wouldn't add any security.

Correction, when using credentials this way you have to fill it out.  I
was mixing things out.  I've already told Tim Waugh that there is an
easier way: just use getsockopt() on the receiver side, no changes to
the sender side.  *Then* you have nothing to fill out on the sender
side, this is what I was thinking about.

The other points are nevertheless valid, though.

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