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
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