Re: [PATCH] fix race in AF_UNIX

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Mon Jun 18 2007 - 06:56:20 EST


> > but it's not as if it's really going to affect performance
> > in real cases.
>
> Since these circumstances are creatable by any user, we have
> to consider the cases caused by malicious entities.

OK. But then the whole gc thing is already broken, since a user can
DoS socket creation/destruction.

I'm all for fixing this gc mess that we have now. But please don't
expect me to be the one who's doing it.

Miklos
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