Method

GioUnixConnectionreceive_credentials

since: 2.26

Declaration [src] 

GCredentials*
g_unix_connection_receive_credentials (
  GUnixConnection* connection,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Receives credentials from the sending end of the connection. The sending end has to call g_unix_connection_send_credentials() (or similar) for this to work.

As well as reading the credentials this also reads (and discards) a single byte from 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.

Available since: 2.26

Parameters

cancellable

Type: GCancellable

A GCancellable or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GCredentials

Received credentials on success (free with g_object_unref()), NULL if error is set.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.