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

> On 6 Jun 2025, at 2:41 AM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jun 5, 2025, at 7:30 PM, Emmanuel Nyarko <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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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> Make it an fcntl option rather than a socket option so that you can apply it to any type of file descriptor?  Maybe F_DROPCREDS so that passing it to anyone causes it to drop the senders creds and take the receiver’s?

Alright thanks. I think I can do some research into that.

And also, fchown, no support for it yet ? 
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> -- thorpej
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