Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:19:09 +0300
From: Paul P Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits
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Replying to Arjan van de Ven:
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:00 +0100, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
> wrote: it tries to fill the
> > ipaddr member of the task_struct structure with the IP address
> > associated to the user running @current task/process,if available.
> 
> but... a use doesn't hane an IP. a host does.

I don't get it too
With multihomed setup same process I have can send and receive on many
addresses simultaneously. So single ip_addr cannot describe this
situation.

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