On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 19:37 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > That basically means that besides systemd itself and maybe the D-Bus > system bus almost nobody can safely use fixed name abstract namespace > sockets. In particular user code that uses fixed name abstract namespace > sockets is necessarily vulnerable to DoS attacks. > > Yes, abstract namespace sockets only have a very limited use. On my desktop, abstract namespace sockets are twice more popular than the regular ones: bernie@giskard:~$ netstat -ax | grep @ | wc -l 151 bernie@giskard:~$ netstat -ax | grep -v @ | grep / | wc -l 73 Most uses are from dbus, but I'm also seeing gnome-session and gvfsd-trash. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
