Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:08:55 +0100, Arjan van de Ven
<arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> 

The patch is useful in this situation. Suppose node E has two IPs, IP1
and IP2. IP1 is the default and got blocked from some network C.

Now if one try to visit C from E, one has to to use IP2.

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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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