X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under 21.4 (patch 21) "Educational Television" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: peter.memishian at sun.com FCC: MAILED
Further to what Seb said, in general, loopback sockets are treated as an IPC mechanism and may be used by any random set of applications that have no interest in actually using the network. That is, not having the proposed NET_ACCESS privilege may cause random applications to fail even though they never attempted to access the network. Is this really the desired behavior? -- meem
