Re: Finding a hidden bound TCP socket

[David Miller]

From: "G. D. Fuego" <gdfuego@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:27:33 -0500

> Any comments?  The behavior seems broken.  At the very least its very
> inconsistent with other Unixes.

Until the socket has a full final tuple it is bound to, there is no
reason to list it.

No UNIX lists a socket which is partially bound and hasn't either
performed a listen() or a connect().

Nobody has any comments because nobody thinks it's worth worrying about.
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