Re: bind() allowed to non-local addresses

[Felix von Leitner]

Thus spake David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'll say it again, if you have to make changes to apps/servers the
> feature does not make any sense.  It must operate transparently or
> not at all.

There once was a socket file system which solved exactly this problem in
a nice and obvious way.  If you wanted to allow user joe to bind to port
80, you just do "chown joe /socks/80".

Whatever happened to that neat idea?
If it was under /proc, I would be happy.

Felix
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