Re: OT: getting the protocol family of a file descriptor

"Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I'm currently in the need to get the protocol family that was used to
create a socket (and passed via a unix domain socket to another
program), and I've not really come up with a proper scheme other than
to use getsockname and retrieve sa_family from the resulting socket
(which currently matches the socket domain and historically has, but
why take the chances ;-)).

This is the correct way to do it, I don't understand why you think it
might not work in the future.

Is there any other "better" way to get at the domain (protocol family)
of a socket?

Why should there be a better way?

DES
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