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To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc: Tom <tom@sdf.com>, Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Netcards
References: <3.0.32.19980109173418.00e5be40@etinc.com>
From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Date: 12 Jan 1998 22:38:40 +0100
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dennis <dennis@etinc.com> writes:

> >  This is raw socket stuff is interesting.  Example source please.  I
> >don't believe this problem exists anymore.  I know that Julian fixed
> >problems with routing sockets.  As a side point, routing sockets and raw
> >sockets can only be accessed by root processes.
> 
> Just look in raw_usrreq(). the default case is a panic. 

Fixed in revision 1.12 as of April 27, 1997.

Do you have anything else?  (I don't think any of us want panic()s to
occur for userland errors, though I think they often are the correct
path for a kernel error.)

Eivind.