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.BR socket (7).
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.TP
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.B SO_PEERCRED
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Return the credentials of the peer process connected to this socket.
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This is possible only for connected
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.B AF_UNIX
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stream sockets and
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.B AF_UNIX
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stream and datagram socket pairs created using
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.BR socketpair (2).
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This read-only socket option returns the
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credentials of the peer process connected to this socket.
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The returned credentials are those that were in effect at the time
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of the call to
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.BR connect (2)
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or
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.BR socketpair (2).
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The argument is a
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.IP
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The argument to
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.BR getsockopt (2)
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is a pointer to a
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.I ucred
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structure; define the
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.B _GNU_SOURCE
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feature test macro to obtain the definition of that structure from
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.IR <sys/socket.h> .
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This socket option is read-only.
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.IP
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The use of this option is possible only for connected
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.B AF_UNIX
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stream sockets and for
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.B AF_UNIX
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stream and datagram socket pairs created using
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.BR socketpair (2).
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.\"
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.SS Autobind feature
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If a
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