Thanks for your answer.
We will have a patch internally to handle this protection.

/mathieu

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David S. Miller [SMTP:davem@redhat.com]
> Sent:	Friday, March 16, 2001 4:46 PM
> To:	Mathieu Giguere (LMC)
> Cc:	'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'; Claude LeFrancois (LMC)
> Subject:	RE: UDP stop transmitting packets!!!
> 
> 
> Mathieu Giguere (LMC) writes:
>  > Ok fine to live with that for security reason, but the socket will be
> dead
>  > for ever! (the only way to remove it is to reboot the machine)
> 
> If you kill the application, the queue is emptied and tossed
> by the kernel.
> 
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
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