Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:04:57 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: getting the protocol family of a file descriptor Message-ID: <47A18F39.60801@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200801310923.16029.wundram@beenic.net> References: <200801310923.16029.wundram@beenic.net>
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Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: > Hey all! > > I'm currently in the need to get the protocol family that was used to create a > socket (and passed via a unix domain socket to another program), and I've not > really come up with a proper scheme other than to use getsockname and > retrieve sa_family from the resulting socket (which currently matches the > socket domain and historically has, but why take the chances ;-)). and pretty much always will. > > Is there any other "better" way to get at the domain (protocol family) of a > socket? >
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