tech-security: Re: tightening control on socket bind()ing

Subject: Re: tightening control on socket bind()ing
To: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-security
Date: 03/09/1999 08:37:24

> I must admit that I don't like solution. What if two people
> on the same machine want to listen to the same mbone video
> broadcasting? Only the first will succeed? Maybe at least in case
> of multi-cast sockets this restriction should not be imposed.

>From reading the patch, there was already a special case for
this.. multicast addresses didn't get this restriction.

					- Bill