On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:03:07 +1100 Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:02:57PM -0500, Chad N. Tindel wrote: > > > > OK, so just out of sheer morbid curiousity, I added an ioctl which will > > accept 4 parameters (the address/port pairs), and will return the user id > > associated with that socket. I also changed pidentd to call this ioctl > > instead of looking at /proc/net/tcp. This should theoretically get rid > > of all race conditions. > > Please show us the code of your ioctl. > > Have you tried netlink yet? Does it exhibit the same problem? It could also be the sockets are shared between processes with uid's or that the real/effective uid or different or even the uid is that of the original creator and the file was inherited across exec. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
