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From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Given a filedescriptor, how can I find source IP??
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.064131.24485@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 06:41:31 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.201818.25515@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Mar23.041824.3130@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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>Remember boys and girls, "getpeername()" only works on sockets.
>I guess I was not clear - the program does not open a socket -
>it inherits some filedescriptors (0 1 and 2).

A program can inherit sockets, just as it can inherit files.  "File"
descriptors can refer to either.  If you're asking about the child
of a telnet session - which has pseudo-terminals connected to 0,
1, and 2 - then you are out of luck.  In general, there is no way
to track backwards through the descriptor of a pty to its controlling
process and then through one of that processe's descriptors to the
foreign machine.

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