Socket.getCredentials

Returns the credentials of the foreign process connected to this socket, if any (e.g. it is only supported for %G_SOCKET_FAMILY_UNIX sockets).

If this operation isn't supported on the OS, the method fails with the %G_IO_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED error. On Linux this is implemented by reading the %SO_PEERCRED option on the underlying socket.

This method can be expected to be available on the following platforms:

- Linux since GLib 2.26 - OpenBSD since GLib 2.30 - Solaris, Illumos and OpenSolaris since GLib 2.40 - NetBSD since GLib 2.42

Other ways to obtain credentials from a foreign peer includes the #GUnixCredentialsMessage type and g_unix_connection_send_credentials() / g_unix_connection_receive_credentials() functions.

class Socket
getCredentials
()

Return Value

%NULL if @error is set, otherwise a #GCredentials object that must be freed with g_object_unref().

Throws

GException on failure.

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Since

2.26