New socket call suggestion

[Chris Torek]

> It occurs to me that it would be very useful to get the egid and euid
> of the process on the other end of a socket in order to implement socket
> protections on the server end. Has anyone done this or does anyone have a
> better idea?

Fine for AF_UNIX maybe, but what about Internet sockets?  There may
not even *be* a "user id" at the other end.
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