>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?
Yes. I wouldn't call it random; they're still INET sockets. The use is limited and specific for containing users. Casper
