Re: [RFC] SO_PEERSEC - security credentials for Unix stream sockets

From: James Morris (jmorris@private)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 06:25:45 PST

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    On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, David S. Miller wrote:
    
    > I'm fine with this conceptually, although the earliest I could put
    > this into the tree is 2.6.1 although I have a hunch that I'll be
    > asked to defer something like this to 2.6.2, but who knows.
    
    No problem, it will hopefully get more testing and feedback in the 
    meantime.  I'll resubmit it sometime after 2.6.0.
    
    > The one thing I don't like is the ifdef conditionalized member of
    > the sock struct.  We should move away from config variables changing
    > structure layouts.  Even a "void *sk_security;" would be better.
    
    Ok.
    
    
    - James
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    James Morris
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