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| author | Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com> | 2018-01-15 20:05:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com> | 2018-03-02 14:52:18 +0000 |
| commit | fbc2a447c4ef189567617aa1372e83141de40a68 (patch) | |
| tree | e27513c12cadac071cad3f2a82e3a074f55bb7db /dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c | |
| parent | 395269e0bce3782b0b413fbad89bdb9337b8df9d (diff) | |
sysdeps: Document what _dbus_credentials_new_from_current_process has
It only has the most important credentials, not the full set.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103737
Diffstat (limited to 'dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c index f1764416..d2a331eb 100644 --- a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c +++ b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c @@ -2756,8 +2756,14 @@ _dbus_user_info_fill_uid (DBusUserInfo *info, } /** - * Adds the credentials of the current process to the - * passed-in credentials object. + * Adds the most important credentials of the current process + * (the uid and pid) to the passed-in credentials object. + * + * The group vector is not included because it is rarely needed. + * The Linux security label is not included because it is rarely + * needed, it requires reading /proc, and the LSM API doesn't actually + * guarantee that the string seen in /proc is comparable to the strings + * found in SO_PEERSEC results. * * @param credentials credentials to add to * @returns #FALSE if no memory; does not properly roll back on failure, so only some credentials may have been added |