How to find other end of unix socket connection?

Posted by depesz on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by depesz
Published on 2011-03-28T13:35:28Z Indexed on 2012/09/20 9:41 UTC
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I have a process (dbus-daemon) which has many open connection over UNIX sockets. One of these connections is fd #36:

=$ ps uw -p 23284
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
depesz   23284  0.0  0.0  24680  1772 ?        Ss   15:25   0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session

=$ ls -l /proc/23284/fd/36 
lrwx------ 1 depesz depesz 64 2011-03-28 15:32 /proc/23284/fd/36 -> socket:[1013410]

=$ netstat -nxp | grep 1013410
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1013410  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD

=$ netstat -nxp | grep dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1013953  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1013825  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1013726  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1013471  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1013410  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1012325  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1012302  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1012289  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1012151  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011957  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011937  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011900  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011775  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011771  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011769  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011766  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011663  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011635  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011627  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011540  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011480  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011349  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011312  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011284  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011250  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011231  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011155  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011061  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011049  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011035  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1011013  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1010961  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     1010945  23284/dbus-daemon   @/tmp/dbus-3XDU4PYEzD

Based on number connections, I assume that dbus-daemon is actually server. Which is OK. But how can I find which process is connected to it - using the connection that is 36th file handle in dbus-launcher? Tried lsof and even greps on /proc/net/unix but I can't figure out a way to find the client process.

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