UnixConnection.receiveCredentials

Receives credentials from the sending end of the connection. The sending end has to call g_unix_connection_send_credentials() (or similar) for this to work.

As well as reading the credentials this also reads (and discards) a single byte from the stream, as this is required for credentials passing to work on some implementations.

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

- Linux since GLib 2.26 - FreeBSD since GLib 2.26 - GNU/kFreeBSD since GLib 2.36 - Solaris, Illumos and OpenSolaris since GLib 2.40 - GNU/Hurd since GLib 2.40

Other ways to exchange credentials with a foreign peer includes the #GUnixCredentialsMessage type and g_socket_get_credentials() function.

class UnixConnection
receiveCredentials

Parameters

cancellable Cancellable

A #GCancellable or %NULL.

Return Value

Received credentials on success (free with g_object_unref()), %NULL if @error is set.

Throws

GException on failure.

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Since

2.26