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Linux kernel hacking – support SO_PEERCRED for local TCP socket connections

Posted on October 6, 2015 by daveti

In my old post (https://davejingtian.org/2015/02/17/retrieve-pid-from-the-packet-in-unix-domain-socket-a-complete-use-case-for-recvmsgsendmsg/), we talked about how to retrieve the peer PID from Unix domain socket using struct ucred. A more smart way to do this is using getsockopt() syscall with option SO_PEERCRED directly. As you expected (or … Continue reading →

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bind() error 0x63 – Cannot assign requested address

Posted on July 3, 2012 by daveti

Recently encountered a bind() error 0x63 – cannot assign requested address. After some effort on debugging, I list 2 possibilities here for reference when handling such this error code from bind().  Generally, if it is related with bad socket close/cleanup, … Continue reading →

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