Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:52:23 -0400

In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906171836420.31970-100000@sasami.anime.net>, Dan Hol
lis writes:
+-----
| Well see, we have people who dont want procfs *or* devfs. Their solution
| would probably be to pollute /dev with a whole new group of maj/min
| devices just to hold socket permissions.
+--->8

I would think more like:

struct sockperms s;
s.proto = IPPROTO_UDP;
s.port = 53;
s.owner = getpwnam("named")->pw_uid;
ioctl(rawsocket, SIOCSETPERMS, &s);

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brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
     We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.


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