Re: Ports 0-1023?

[Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () coredump cx>]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Martin Mačok wrote:

> 1) This is the Unix way and we want to be compatible
>    (bind port, drop root - easy)

On a side note, for way too many programmers, this is not easy. There were
way too many privilege dropping bugs, many of them caused by different
semantics on different systems.

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