Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:34:29 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [itojun@iijlab.net: accept(2) behavior with tcp RST right after handshake] Message-ID: <200102130234.SAA73072@curve.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <20010212194058.A1479@prism.flugsvamp.com> "from Jonathan Lemon at Feb 12, 2001 07:40:58 pm"
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Jonathan Lemon writes: > It seems to me that the odds of an application being able to correctly > handle an error return from accept() are far greater than the odds that > the code correctly checks 'len' upon return from accept. This, combined > with the standard, seems to be rationale enough to make the change. True.. but even greater still are the chances that an application will correctly handle accept() returning a *real* sockaddr that corresponds to an already closed connection. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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