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The logger meets linux-kernel

The logger meets linux-kernel

Posted Jan 4, 2012 20:44 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
Parent article: The logger meets linux-kernel

If systemd's journal and rsyslog can get the trusted process ID info (with the limitation that some of the info is currently subject to lookup race conditions), why couldn't a userspace logger replacement be able to get it?


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The logger meets linux-kernel

Posted Jan 18, 2012 5:39 UTC (Wed) by kevinm (guest, #69913) [Link]

It can - the mechanism is SCM_CREDENTIALS.

The logger meets linux-kernel

Posted Jan 18, 2012 19:53 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

the claim in the article was that the android logger software needed to run in the kernel to get this information.

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