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

Emmanuel Nyarko <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On 5 Jun 2025, at 11:12 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 04:36:43PM +0000, Emmanuel Nyarko wrote:
>> Errmmm, I was thinking that it maybe becomes a default behavior.
>> 
>> I mean every socket should be owned by the process that the socket was created for.
> 
> What will happen when a socket changes hands by file descriptor passing
> over a Unix domain socket?
I think Jonathan Stone pointed out a few maybe “incompatibilities” with the Unix Domain Socket. I think I would also have to do some research into that as well since I don’t have that much knowledge and experience in that domain. 
> 
> Thor

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