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How to tell if a file handle is a socket?

I need to log socket usage, and I wrote a LD_PRELOAD library.

The problem is when I override read() and write() than ordinary file operations are get logged too (of course).

So how can I tell ordinary file descriptors and socket descriptors apart?

Solution

  • Call fstat on the descriptor and use the S_ISSOCK macro on the result.

    struct stat statbuf;
fstat(fd, &statbuf);
S_ISSOCK(statbuf.st_mode);