Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection

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>> Anyways, I would prefer to stick with TCP/UDP, because this is  
>> what my
>> programs use already, and  I don't really want to change  
>> everything to
>> Unix sockets (unless of course Unix sockets are the only good way to
>> resolve my problems).

I don't want to go off-topic but i have an important question. Isn't  
a socket a concept that translates an address and port? How would  
someone go about doing tcp/udp without sockets when they both depend  
on address/port mappings which are _literally_ sockets?

Am i wrong?

Thanks for reading

Filipe