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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SO_PEERSEC - security credentials for Unix stream sockets
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:49:04 -0800
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* James Morris (jmorris@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Chris Wright wrote:
> It's not reliable: the required buffer size could change between calls.  
> Do you know of any examples of syscalls which do this?

Of course, just kludgy best guess.  getgroups, getxattr come to mind
right off.

thanks,
-chris
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