getaddrinfo() and PF_LOCAL

[Andreas Jaeger]

Stig Venaas <venaas@nvg.ntnu.no> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I see that PF_LOCAL support has been removed from getaddrinfo()
> due to security problems. Could anyone tell me what problems they
> see? The only thing I can think of is the unlinking, but that's
> a problem the application must face anyway with domain sockets.

Check the thread started at:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2001-05/msg00044.html

And feel free to send your comments after reading it,

Andreas
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