Messages in this thread | | | From | John M Collins <> | Subject | Re: Fchown on unix domain sockets? | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:41:56 +0000 |
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On Monday 01 Nov 2004 14:20, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> As some manpage might say, the socket thing you see in "ls -l" is just a > reference thing. When you connect to it, ls -l /proc/pidofprogram/fd/ does > not show the path, but [socket:xxxx] which shows that the filesystem object > is not used anymore.
When I connect to it is the point. I want to set the permissions etc so that only the progams that are supposed to be talking to it talk to it.
> >I don't mind it not working but I think it should report an error. This is > > on 2.6.3 kernel. > > What would you like it to do? EINVAL like the others or change the actual > inode's permission?
I don't mind. I think it's a meaninful thing to want to do, but if you can't do it that way, fine, just let me know with some error code.
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