From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:22:42 +0400
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:21:34PM -0700, David Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > What in the world are we doing allowing stream sockets to autobind? > > That is totally bogus. Even if we autobind, that won't make a connect > > happen. > > For accepted socket it is perfectly valid assumption - we could autobind > it during the first send. Or may bind it during accept. Its a matter of > taste I think. Autobinding during first sending can end up being a > protection against DoS in some obscure rare case... accept()ed socket is by definition fully bound and already in established state. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
