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Hello!

> > It seems to be intentional. In the case of dummy it certainly
> > looks as though BROADCAST should be allowed. It is supposed to
> > behave like a real network interface isn't it?

Not all real interfaces have broadcast flag set.
If it were true, this flag would be redundant 8)

> any rationale for this intention ? right now I only can see that
>
> - it breaks xdm

Mmm... it does not break chooser.

> - it's incompatible to other U*X (*BSD and Linux 2.0)

Sure? BSD has not IFF_BROADCAST on loopback 8)

> are there any other programs which might need broadcasts on lo, too ?

No valid programs need broadcasts on loopback.

Alexey Kuznetsov

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