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

Mouse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I can accept a TCP connection on an AF_INET socket, then take the
> resulting file descriptor and transfer it to a completely unrelated
> process using a control message on an AF_UNIX socket.  That process
> can be owned by a different user.  What do you intend to happen to
> the AF_INET socket that is passed in this way?

Whatever the configuration calls for, of course.

That can't be done with per-packet filtering.  That's why I think
per-packet filtering is a wrong place to try to satisfy this desire.

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