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I'm have a tracer process that traces a network application.

Given a socket file descriptor belonging to the tracee, would it be possible for the tracer to find the IP it corresponds to(in the case of a server the IP of the interface it binds to, in the case of a client the address of the interface used to make the connection), the port number and the type of connection? Are there libc APIs that could be used to make this work? Any information in /proc that could be used?

Also, would there be a way to distinguish a file descriptor that corresponds to a socket from one that corresponds to an open file or device?

  • possible duplicate of [Get IP address from socket descriptor?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14711392/get-ip-address-from-socket-descriptor) – emil Jun 10 '14 at 05:40
  • I've made an edit clarifying the difference, thanks. –  Jun 10 '14 at 05:56
  • File descriptor belons to the tracee, so these things you want are not possible to do from any other process in a direct way (I'm not sure if tracing doesn't have any mechanism to work around this) without passing fd through sendmsg for e.g. – zoska Jun 10 '14 at 08:28

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You can use ioctl() syscall for those by invoking respective flags use ifreq structure for it.

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