From: John M Collins <jmc@xisl.com>
Organization: Xi Software Ltd
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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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John Collins Xi Software Ltd www.xisl.com
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