Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 00:05:27 EST


Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks. I'm not sure either, it would require two concurrent requests
> to be processed, but AFAICS oidentd only uses a single netlink socket.
> Perhaps multiple running instances or something else using the inet_diag
> interface?

Since identd serves requests from the outside world it is
quite possible for two identd instances to run simultaneously
serving two requests.

I'm not familiar with oidentd but this is certainly pidentd
works.

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