"David S. Miller" wrote:

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:27:36 -0700
Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

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This appears to be deliberate:

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I do not know why; the comment is fairly useless.

For many socket types there are no sane open() semantics.

If I open() a unconnected socket, what does that mean?
Should it connect, of do something like a dup()?

This code has been this way for a long time, anyone who wants to
change this needs to deal with and address all the aforementioned
issues.

Thanks for looking at this.

I've done some digging on the OpenSSH side: originally sshd used pipes on
Linux but they were found [0] to have problems that cause lockups in (at
least) rsync.

[0] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=94914935131492

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