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The managed resource API

The managed resource API

Posted Feb 26, 2007 16:53 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: The managed resource API by flewellyn
Parent article: The managed resource API

There already is at least one (in net/unix/Space.c, IIRC). If you don't garbage-collect fds in transit down AF_UNIX sockets, you open a trival DoS hole. (But that's a very special-purpose GC so may not count.)


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