Re: bind() allowed to non-local addresses

[Horst von Brand]

Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> David S. Miller wrote:
> > How about first finding out why their buggy JRE detects whether an
> > address is local by trying to bind() to it :-)

> I don't know why the JRE does it, but I've seen that sort of thing used
> to decide whether to try X shared memory.

Could you explain the logic behid that?!
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