netdev - Re: unix STREAM/SEQPACKET sockets and SO

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Date:	Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:02:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kay@...y.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unix STREAM/SEQPACKET sockets and SO_PASSCRED race

From: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 22:55:28 +0200

> If not, could we inherit/copy over the PASSCRED bit from the listen
> socket to the connection socket. Servers could set the flag there to
> receive it for the accepted connections?

We could start doing that yes, this is similar to what we did for
things like non-nonblocking flags on TCP sockets a long time ago.
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