> In message "RCR: UNIX credentials" > on 04/05/19, Guillaume Marcais <guslist / free.fr> writes: > |To get a feel before submitting a real RCR: > | > |Abstract: > |Add calls to UNIXSocket to pass around the UNIX credentials > |(i.e. pid, |uid and gid). > | > |Problem: > |There is no way, that I know of, within Ruby to find out > |which process is connected at the other end of a UNIX socket. > I like the idea. But I don't want to merge it if it's Linux > specific. Any idea? There is also a way -- I'm not sure HOW offhand -- to get some/most of this information on Windows; things like Kerio Personal Firewall do it to know which process is trying to go outbound. -austin -- austin ziegler * austin.ziegler / evault.com