From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/23] SUNRPC: rpcbind actually interprets r_owner string
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:02:07 +1100
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Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Greg Banks wrote:
>
> rpcbind then throws this away and uses getsockopt(SO_PEERCRED).  On
> network sockets I think that's always going to return a uid of -1, but
> for AF_LOCAL it will have a meaningful value.
Aha.  Unconfused now,  thanks.

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