Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964937AbVLNUZf (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:25:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964941AbVLNUZe (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:25:34 -0500 Received: from ns2.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.211]:60052 "EHLO ns2.lanforge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964937AbVLNUZe (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:25:34 -0500 Message-ID: <43A07FB5.6040208@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:25:25 -0800 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: Sridhar Samudrala , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] TCP/IP Critical socket communication mechanism References: <9a8748490512141216x7e25ca2cucb675f11f0c9d913@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a8748490512141216x7e25ca2cucb675f11f0c9d913@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 21 Jesper Juhl wrote: > To be a little serious, it sounds like something that could be used to > cause trouble and something that will lose its usefulness once enough > people start using it (for valid or invalid reasons), so what's the > point... It could easily be a user-configurable option in an application. If DOS is a real concern, only let this work for root users... Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/