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Date:	Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:31:55 +0100
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, gdfuego@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Finding a hidden bound TCP socket

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 01:01 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> From: "G. D. Fuego"<gdfuego@...il.com>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:27:33 -0500
>>
>>> Any comments?  The behavior seems broken.  At the very least its very
>>> inconsistent with other Unixes.
>>
>> Until the socket has a full final tuple it is bound to, there is no
>> reason to list it.
>>
>> No UNIX lists a socket which is partially bound and hasn't either
>> performed a listen() or a connect().
>
> Well....  I took the .c file mentioned previously, and compiled it on a
> Solaris 10 8/11 instance.  The 25-odd sockets it created *were* listed in
> the output of netstat -an -- local address as *.<portnum> remote address as
> *.* and a state of "BOUND."
>
> A FreeBSD  (rev 8 IIRC) netstat -an seems to display them in a state of
> "CLOSED."  I didn't check HP-UX 11i v3 or AIX 6.
>

IRIX (6.5) shows them as "CLOSED".

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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