From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion for a new system call: convert file handle to a cookie for transfering file handles between processes.
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 09:59:26 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfb4pu$hae$4@news.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fb7ddfab3b.fab3bfb7dd@teleline.es
In article <fb7ddfab3b.fab3bfb7dd@teleline.es>,
RAMON_GARCIA_F <RAMON_GARCIA_F@terra.es> wrote:
>I suggest to add a new system call for transfering a file handle between
>two processes.
>
>In Linux, transfer of file handles can be done through a Unix domain
>socket. This mechanism is quite unflexible. It requires that the two
>applications connect by this kind of socket, and it is difficult to
>use from shell scripts.
Why, write a small program 'passfd /var/run/socket fd1 fd2' which
does the work for you.
>Let cdwritter be a program for writting CDs. Unlike other programs,
>cdwritter is rationally designed. It is a server process that listens
>through a named pipe, thus making it easy to write either command line
>or graphical interfaces that use its functionality. The named pipe
>is called /var/run/cdwritter
>
>An alternative would be that cdwritter accepts a file name instead of
>a cookie. But then, the author of cdwritter would have to check if the
>user has permission to access the file. This makes cdwritter more error
>prone.
You can get the uid/gid on the other side of a unix socket easily,
so you just setfsuid() / open(). But again you do need to use
a Unix socket, not a pipe, so you need a small client program.
There have been patches to the kernel to treat an open() on a
unix socket as a bind() + connect(), but unfortunately that has
never been integrated in mainline.
Now that we have getsockopt(SO_PEERCRED, &ucred) the above would
be very useful.
Mike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-19 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-17 17:47 Suggestion for a new system call: convert file handle to a cookie for transfering file handles between processes RAMON_GARCIA_F
2003-07-18 18:39 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-07-19 3:55 ` Mark Mielke
2003-07-19 9:59 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2003-07-21 9:49 RAMON_GARCIA_F
2003-07-21 13:42 ` Mark Mielke
2003-07-21 14:41 ` Horst von Brand
2003-07-21 16:55 RAMON_GARCIA_F
2003-07-21 19:16 ` Mark Mielke
2003-07-21 19:48 RAMON_GARCIA_F
2003-07-21 20:07 ` Mark Mielke
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