Gio.UnixConnection.prototype.receive_credentials

function receive_credentials(cancellable: Gio.Cancellable): Gio.Credentials {
    // Gjs wrapper for g_unix_connection_receive_credentials()
}
  

Receives credentials from the sending end of the connection. The sending end has to call Gio.UnixConnection.prototype.send_credentials (or similar) for this to work.

As well as reading the credentials this also reads (and discards) a single byte from the stream, as this is required for credentials passing to work on some implementations.

Other ways to exchange credentials with a foreign peer includes the Gio.UnixCredentialsMessage type and Gio.Socket.prototype.get_credentials function.

Since 2.26