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Re: getaddrinfo() and PF_LOCAL
- To: Stig Venaas <venaas at nvg dot ntnu dot no>
- Subject: Re: getaddrinfo() and PF_LOCAL
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:43:00 +0200
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010801153554.A28963@nvg.ntnu.no>
Stig Venaas <venaas@nvg.ntnu.no> writes:
> Hi
>
> I see that PF_LOCAL support has been removed from getaddrinfo()
> due to security problems. Could anyone tell me what problems they
> see? The only thing I can think of is the unlinking, but that's
> a problem the application must face anyway with domain sockets.
Check the thread started at:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2001-05/msg00044.html
And feel free to send your comments after reading it,
Andreas
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