Re: Proposal 171 (revised): Separate streams across circuits by connection metadata

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Chris Palmer <chris@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 02:35 PM, Robert Hogan wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, Unix sockets allow you to collect the gid and uid of the
>> process on the other side of the socket. Not the pid unfortunately.
>
> Not so: my FreeBSD sys/socket.h has:

I thought these interfaces were only for passing credentials over unix
sockets. What's the API to get a copy of one of these structures given
only a socket without the other guy passing you a credential?

(Either way, it's a bit academic if it only works on unix sockets; I'm
not aware of any applications that support socks over non-TCP sockets)

yrs,
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Nick