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From: lists_todd@mac.com
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: saddr value in connect()
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 17:31:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E902AE20-A3F8-4895-88AF-E240C792A062@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140505182621.45cb8670@ivy-bridge>


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On May 5, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:

> saddr is a hex encoded blob that is a struct sockaddr.

I’m writing my own parsing code to add Linux analysis to my Mac-based BSM audit analysis tools, so I might be asking some “out of left field” questions from time to time. I’ve been working my way through decoding things like the sockaddr hex blob.


>> …
> 
> Its a socket address structure. It may or may not be null terminated
> depending on the socket type.
> 
>> ...
> 
> Its other fields in struct sockaddr.
> 
>> ...
> 
> That would be an abstract af_unix socket.


With that info I did a little more digging and found a lot of this information in

	$ man 7 unix

Thanks!

Todd


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-05 22:11 saddr value in connect() lists_todd
2014-05-05 22:26 ` Steve Grubb
2014-05-06  0:31   ` lists_todd [this message]
2014-05-06 17:55   ` Steve Grubb
2014-05-15 16:20     ` lists_todd
2014-05-15 16:55       ` Steve Grubb

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