Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: Implement SO_PEERCGROUP

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Implement SO_PEERCGROUP along the lines of SO_PEERCRED. This returns the
> cgroup of first mounted hierarchy of the task. For the case of client,
> it represents the cgroup of client at the time of opening the connection.
> After that client cgroup might change.
>
> This works only for unix stream sockets.

I still don't understand why this is useful when SCM_CGROUP exists.

--Andy
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