Re: /dev/urandom | logger "issue"

[Matt Wilson <msw () REDHAT COM>]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:51:25AM -0400, Larry D'Anna wrote:
> Is it possible to get the uid of the process at the other end of a
> unix domain socket?  If so then why not have syslogd get the uid and
> record who logged each message?

It's possible to crawl /proc to do this, but it would be extremely
slow and inaccurate (more than one process writing to /dev/log at the
same time...)

Matt