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Re: Proposal: killpeer(2)



On May 15, 2011, at 11:27 43AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> 
> 
> If we had a socket type which was record oriented but cloned on accept()
> like stream sockets, then we _would_ have a file descriptor per peer and
> what I'm describing below would work:

It can still be many processes if the accept()er has forked.

                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb







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