Re: How to obtain process ID that created a packet

[Jan Engelhardt]

>Hi,
>
>Is there any way to catch REAL pid that generated a packet from 'struct sk_buff', 'struct sock',
>'struct socket',
>'struct file' or etc... ? direct/indirect ways are accepted.

The question is: when do you test for the PID? You would have to do it 
within send(), because anywhere else, you do not know. A socket may be 
shared among multiple processes (most simple way: fork()).



Jan Engelhardt
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