RE: Testing of lsbdev and sample implementation
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> <<mats>> we can't possibly limit an LSB application from using
> TCP/IP to connect to a well-known port somewhere else. Making
> sure the right thing is listening becomes a problem that has to
> be dealt with outside of the spec, right?
Correct. If rsync used the sockets API instead of calling out to rsh, this
wouldn't have been an issue.
Stuart
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