UnixCredentialsMessage
This #GSocketControlMessage contains a #GCredentials instance. It may be sent using g_socket_send_message() and received using g_socket_receive_message() over UNIX sockets (ie: sockets in the %G_SOCKET_FAMILY_UNIX family).
For an easier way to send and receive credentials over stream-oriented UNIX sockets, see g_unix_connection_send_credentials() and g_unix_connection_receive_credentials(). To receive credentials of a foreign process connected to a socket, use g_socket_get_credentials().
Since GLib 2.72, #GUnixCredentialMessage is available on all platforms. It requires underlying system support (such as Windows 10 with AF_UNIX
) at run time.
Before GLib 2.72, <gio/gunixcredentialsmessage.h>
belonged to the UNIX-specific GIO interfaces, thus you had to use the gio-unix-2.0.pc
pkg-config file when using it. This is no longer necessary since GLib 2.72.
Since
2.26