Re: kernel bug in socketpair()

[Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 16:36, David S. Miller wrote:
> > This is intentional - sockets do not have an "open" operation currently.
> 
> Sure, but we've known this for a long time.
> 
> And because we knew, we decided not to add an "open"
> method to sockets.  The reason, as I remember it, was
> security.
> 
> Was it not?

Mostly if I remember rightly that if you don't do the check because you have
no open operation to create a new instance you crash the box. HPA did have 
some sensible ideas about how to do "open" on AF_UNIX sockets but for the 
others its really unclear quite what "open" means