On Apr 7 12:35, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: > Yuyi Wang via Cygwin wrote: > > Thank you Christian, setting SO_PEERCRED on the client socket works. It's a > > little wierd, though. Is it OK to always set it to NULL on a unix socket? > > No, this is a Cygwin extension, originally added for postfix.
Background is the default mechanism to exchange credentials and a security hash, so we know we talk to the right peer. Setting SO_PEERCRED switches that off. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
