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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:18 EDT
Subject: Re: interesting connect(2) side effect...
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My ancient 2.1.5 connect(2) manpage does document the UDP effect.
It also works on Irix 5.3-6.5 and is documented in the manpage,
so really it's not unintentional.

Barney Wolff  <barney@databus.com>

> From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:47:10 +0200 (MET DST)
> 
> i was considering this a side effect because i can't find documentation
> mentioning this as a feature -- certainly not the connect(2) manpage.
> Not to mention that nothing prevents a second, unprivileged app on
> your server send packets on the same UDP port -- if you want to do
> a safe filtering you do need a better mechanism.


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