Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel bug in socketpair() | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 23 Jul 2003 17:13:40 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 16:36, David S. Miller wrote: > > 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. > > Was it not?
Mostly if I remember rightly that if you don't do the check because you have no open operation to create a new instance you crash the box. HPA did have some sensible ideas about how to do "open" on AF_UNIX sockets but for the others its really unclear quite what "open" means
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