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Re: "uselessly listens on localhost" RC



On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:55:19PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > Reasoning for this is that opening listening sockets with the network
> > allows "better" ways to exploit security bugs than in the traditional
> > unix filesystem.
> > 
> 
> Erm, excuse me but that argument sounds rather silly to me.
> Over the years there have been many daemons that have completely moved away
> from unix domain sockets to using standard network sockets because it
> provides more flexibility and supporting both means more code to maintain
> and support.

True, mysql server just to say one.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine


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