Re: AGP & non-root mmap calls: "lending" priviledges to a client

Malcolm Beattie (mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:33:12 +0100 (BST)


Andi Kleen writes:
> SCM_CREDENTIALS is in newer BSD, but not in most other Unixes afaik.
> SCM_RIGHTS is available on most Unixes in slight variations.

In SysV, the I_RECVFD ioctl on a stream pipe gives you a
struct strrecvfd which includes not only your file descriptor but also
the effective uid and gid of the sending user. So the functionality of
SCM_CREDENTIALS and SCM_RIGHTS are merged but you can pass your
credentials by passing a dummy file descriptor.

--Malcolm

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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services

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