Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:02:26 +0800 | From | Andrey Savochkin <> | Subject | Re: bind() - Old/Current behaviour - Change? |
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:52:30PM +1000, Cefiar wrote: [snip] > ... what is really necessary, > which is to simply not allow the programs to bind to the addresses in the > first place. Unfortunately to implement this sort of thing in god knows how > many user space programs looked like too much re-inventing of the wheel. > > What I'm sort of envisioning is a small API (and user space interface > program) that can maintain lists like this for 2 sorts of instances: > - Global conditions > - Per-process conditions [snip]
I think that it's a good idea. The only question is whether such lists and conditions, and such a big degree of flexibility belongs to the kernel space. Isn't it better just to pass almost all bind() calls through a special daemon for systems which want non-trivial bind policies?
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