Ports and their owners

[Musumeci, Antonio S]

Given:

1) Port ! {self(), {command, Data}} syntax will fail with badsig if the self() is not the port owner.
2) port_command(Port, Data) does not do this and allows any process to send messages to the port
3) ports have owners

Question:

Why is it (or am I missing how to do it) that I'm unable from the port side to find out who is sending the incoming message? It appears that there was this original intent to lock down the port but with port_command that was thrown away without the ability to be sure who's sending you the data so as it implement one's own security measures.

If this is in fact true does anyone have suggestions on securing ports?

Thanks.


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