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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:00:31 -0500
From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>,
	Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, net@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: select fails to return incoming connect on FreeBSD-4.3
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:00:31PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone had a chance to look at this and figure out what the fix
> > might be?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Glenn Johnson
> 
> It's a feature, not a bug. :)
> 
> Since everyone's on vacation and we can't switch generation schemes right
> now, I've e-mailed kris and asked if he objects to me adding a sysctl
> which switches between the current and old generation schemes.  If he says
> it's ok, I'll commit it soon and those affected will be able to use the
> old generation scheme.

I don't object; while the security provided by the new scheme is nice,
breaking TIME_WAIT assassination is a serious bug in some environments,
and there should be a way to work around it now.
-- 
Jonathan

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