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Hauleth
@hauleth.dev

Oh, another useful thing - libffi-like tooling built in. So it would not require me to write whole NIF and require user to compile (or go through pain of cross-compilation) some C code to access functions like `getuid` or `geteuid` etc.

Hauleth
@hauleth.dev

Place where it would be useful is my systemd library where I need to send extra information about process when these differ. But with plain Erlang I cannot get that info, that mean that I need to use external NIF (wich I also have written). There is issue to add that functionality

github.comBIF for more detailed process information · Issue #9265 · erlang/otpIs your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In systemd integration library it would be useful to have access to process effective user ID and process effective group ID. Unfortun...
Hauleth
@hauleth.dev

Another useful feature unfortunately got closed, for reasonable reasons, but still, this is slightly painful to see that it will not be there, as it would help with having some fancier socket features available.

github.comBIF for fetching C types sizes · Issue #9266 · erlang/otpIs your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We currently have API for sending SCM_CREDENTIALS using Unix sockets, however there is issue that cmsg_send/0 map takes binary as a da...

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