Re: disablenetwork() syscall

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"Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <dlitz@dlitz.net> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I've created a patch to 2.6.1 (i386 only, for now) which implements
> Dan Bernstein's disablenetwork() syscall, which allows any process to
> abandon its ability (and the ability of any subsequently forked or
> exec'd processes) to use bind(), connect(), sendto() and socket().
>
> The patch is available at
> http://www.dlitz.net/software/patches/disablenetwork/ , and I'd really
> appreciate any feedback (this is my first real kernel modification).

I'm interested in this work.  

An initial observation: It looks like you could clean up your patch a
bit by just doing "return -EACCESS;" instead of introducing a
do-nothing goto and label.

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