Re: Is this mail list dead?

[Wil Cooley <wcooley@nakedape.cc>]

Thus spake Coltrey Mather:

> I think it would be better if there were an option to allow non-root
> access to certain ports (controlled by some file in /proc/sys/
> perhaps?).

Didn't BSD have something like this, a net-devfs that allowed you to
access INET sockets as regular files?  Or am I perhaps just thinking
of some GNU awk extensions?  This seems like it would be a simpler
interface--with files you can just set their perms-- 'chown www
/dev/inet/eth0/port/80' (and you need something like devfsd to record
such changes so they're not lost between boots).

Wil
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