Re: linux-ipsec: Pluto command line

On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > - should Pluto have a "fork" argument for symmetry with "nofork"?

I don't see any need for this.

> - The locking code does not do the dance required to work with NFS.
> Does this matter?

I think not. This ought to be strictly local anyway (as Hugh suggests). Nobody in his right mind who cares about security at all is going to be using NFS for something like this...

> - The "daemon fork" code closes all file descriptors.  I've changed it

I don't think so; normally that's going to be going to a file anyway.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net
                                                     (henry@zoo.toronto.edu)