Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

From: Paul P Komkoff Jr
Date: Thu Mar 10 2005 - 11:30:48 EST


Replying to Arjan van de Ven:
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:00 +0100, Lorenzo HernÃndez GarcÃa-Hierro
> wrote: it tries to fill the
> > ipaddr member of the task_struct structure with the IP address
> > associated to the user running @current task/process,if available.
>
> but... a use doesn't hane an IP. a host does.

I don't get it too
With multihomed setup same process I have can send and receive on many
addresses simultaneously. So single ip_addr cannot describe this
situation.

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