Re: setting access rights to priviledged ports

Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU)
14 Oct 1998 22:16:39 -0400

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>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Sulmicki <adam@cfar.umd.edu> writes:
> The thing you talk about was 'chown port' patch, which used to
> map ports onto filesystem and use chown to change them at will.
> I did not made into kernel

Well, it seems its name was `sockfs'.
Any idea why it didn't make it to the kernel ?
I understand that this specific issue can be solved in user-level,
but maybe there's another reason ?

Stefan

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