Bug or feature ...

Kees Cook kees at ubuntu.com
Wed Apr 6 21:53:46 UTC 2011


Hi Scott,

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 05:35:07PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> He offers this as a test case:

I can confirm the behavior difference between maverick and natty by doing
this:

while ./testcase.pl ; do echo -n . ; done

On maverick, this runs forever. Natty immediately fails:

Parent 792

Child 793
.bind: Address already in use at ./testcase.pl line 9.


I hope this is a Net::Server delta and not a kernel delta.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team



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