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

From: Chris Wright (chrisw@private)
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 09:49:04 PST

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    * James Morris (jmorris@private) wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Chris Wright wrote:
> It's not reliable: the required buffer size could change between calls.  
> Do you know of any examples of syscalls which do this?

Of course, just kludgy best guess.  getgroups, getxattr come to mind
right off.

thanks,
-chris
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