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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:26:19 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net>, Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:18.bind
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101311721500.563-100000@achilles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010131151531.I26076@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> If it breaks HUP, then not really. :)
>
> I'm not sure how bind handles restarts, but even if it exec(2)s over
> itself it can track the fd open for its socket and shouldn't have to
> rebind it.

I don't see any complaints from 8.2.3 running -u bind -g bind when I HUP
it here.

(Well, ok, I see the can't create pidfile junk, but that's not critical
IMHO.)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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