Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:36:21 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: kernel bug in socketpair() |
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On 23 Jul 2003 15:20:08 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 14:32, David Korn wrote: > > The first problem is that files created with socketpair() are not accessible > > via /dev/fd/n or /proc/$$/fd/n where n is the file descriptor returned > > by socketpair(). Note that this is not a problem with pipe(). > > This is intentional - sockets do not have an "open" operation currently.
Sure, but we've known this for a long time.
And because we knew, we decided not to add an "open" method to sockets. The reason, as I remember it, was security.
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