From: John M Collins <jmc@xisl.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: Fchown on unix domain sockets?
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:41:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411011441.56524.jmc@xisl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0411011517570.29275@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
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.
--
John Collins Xi Software Ltd www.xisl.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-01 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-31 22:55 Fchown on unix domain sockets? John M Collins
2004-11-01 14:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 14:41 ` John M Collins [this message]
2004-11-01 14:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 15:43 ` John M Collins
2004-11-01 17:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 22:27 ` David Wagner
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