Re: potential security issue on 64bit systems with socket calls?

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Actually, I don't see the security problem.

If the kernel thinks the MSG_CMSG_COMPAT bit is set, big
deal, the user will just get garbage behavior in that the
kernel will intepret it's datastructures to be in the compat
format instead of native.
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