Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
>That's not true for Linux 2.[24].x at least. One can use
>getsockopt(..., SO_PEERCRED, ...) to get the uid of the other end.
>
>It would be nice if you could request that as an upstream feature.
The upstream developers are not friendly to non-portable features; I
might be able to get it added under a config option.
(portable means BSD Linux AIX HP-UX VAX Solaris Windows ...)
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