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Allow getRemoteAddress to return the PID of a connecting Unix connection

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by locating the getRemoteAddress entry point used by UnixServer connections and inspect how Unix and non-Unix addresses are currently handled. Verify the available socket peer-credential behavior and existing coverage, then ensure a connecting Unix client exposes its PID while other address handling remains unchanged.

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Description

help wanted new feature

Currently when dealing with a UnixServer, its connections do not return a value for getRemoteAddress, the returned value is actually NULL.
I`d like it to return the PID of the connecting client. Is that something you would integrate in this library?

public function getRemoteAddress()
{
    if($this->unix){
        $socket = socket_import_stream($this->stream);

        return socket_get_option($socket, SOL_SOCKET, 17 /*SO_PEERCRED*/);
    }
    return $this->parseAddress(@stream_socket_get_name($this->stream, true));
}

See http://php.net/manual/en/function.socket-get-option.php#101380

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