sendCredentials

Passes the credentials of the current user the receiving side of the connection. The receiving end has to call g_unix_connection_receive_credentials() (or similar) to accept the credentials.

As well as sending the credentials this also writes a single NUL byte to 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.

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