From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] TCP/IP Critical socket communication mechanism Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:25:25 -0800 Message-ID: <43A07FB5.6040208@candelatech.com> References: <9a8748490512141216x7e25ca2cucb675f11f0c9d913@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sridhar Samudrala , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Jesper Juhl In-Reply-To: <9a8748490512141216x7e25ca2cucb675f11f0c9d913@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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