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From: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-hackers@psconsult.nl>
To: tho <thomas.fossati@tin.it>
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Subject: Re: Just a wild idea
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Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:31:59AM +0200, tho wrote:
> hi Paul,
> 
> have you considered using a "file descriptor passing" based technique
> (section 14.7 of Stevens' UNPv1) ?
> 
> you may have a process with suser privs which creates file descriptors 
> (e.g. socket bind()ed to a particular address and port) on demand and then 
> passes back the descriptor to the requesting (unprivileged) process through 
> a unix domain socket

I know this technique but the real issue is about many pieces of
standard software, like BIND named, sendmail, syslogd and so on.
So this technique, although very usable for new projects, will
not solve this problem.

> tho

Thanks for your answer,

Paul Schenkeveld

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