Re: Proposal to automatically make the owner/user of an accepted socket the current process

Emmanuel

> On 6 Jun 2025, at 1:43 AM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jun 5, 2025, at 9:36 AM, Emmanuel Nyarko <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Errmmm, I was thinking that it maybe becomes a default behavior.
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>> I mean every socket should be owned by the process that the socket was created for.
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> This actually seems not that great.  It’s de rigueur to have a more privileged process create a socket (or other sort of file descriptor) in a controlled fashion to pass off to a less-privileged process.  This should be opt-in behavior on a per-file descriptor basis.

Yep, UNIX socket behavior. And so far hearing from you guys, I now know it’s a bad idea to make it a default behavior. So an opt-in behavior with socket options. Just adding an extension for that. 
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> -- thorpej
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