From 0d6038ee76f2e06b79d0465807f67e86bf4025de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Engelhardt Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 07:28:29 +0000 Subject: net: implement a SO_DOMAIN getsockoption MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This sockopt goes in line with SO_TYPE and SO_PROTOCOL. It makes it possible for userspace programs to pass around file descriptors — I am referring to arguments-to-functions, but it may even work for the fd passing over UNIX sockets — without needing to also pass the auxiliary information (PF_INET6/IPPROTO_TCP). Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/sock.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index ebce661234a..3ac34ea6ec0 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -483,6 +483,7 @@ int sock_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, break; case SO_TYPE: case SO_PROTOCOL: + case SO_DOMAIN: case SO_ERROR: ret = -ENOPROTOOPT; break; @@ -769,6 +770,10 @@ int sock_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, v.val = sk->sk_protocol; break; + case SO_DOMAIN: + v.val = sk->sk_family; + break; + case SO_ERROR: v.val = -sock_error(sk); if (v.val == 0) -- cgit v1.2.3