On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:00:31PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had a chance to look at this and figure out what the fix
> > might be?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Glenn Johnson
>
> It's a feature, not a bug. :)
>
> Since everyone's on vacation and we can't switch generation schemes right
> now, I've e-mailed kris and asked if he objects to me adding a sysctl
> which switches between the current and old generation schemes. If he says
> it's ok, I'll commit it soon and those affected will be able to use the
> old generation scheme.
I don't object; while the security provided by the new scheme is nice,
breaking TIME_WAIT assassination is a serious bug in some environments,
and there should be a way to work around it now.
--
Jonathan
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