Re: How do I find out the list of active network objects?

[Patrick Caulfield <patrick@pandh.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:01:21AM +0000, Steve Whitehouse wrote:
> > 
> If it goes back, then I think that is the file it should go into. As
> Patrick says, the file should be standardised shortly to allow a DECnet
> version of netstat to be written. The main reason I had for not putting
> the object information into /proc/net/decnet was that it might be a security
> risk if everyone on the system could see it. However since the other socket
> families show this information, I think it is probably not such a problem.
> I'll try and remember to add it in the next patch.

If you want to hide some information maybe you could keep a file with more
restrictive protection on it (quite easy in /proc). That would allow the
DECnet equivalent of "netstat -p" to work too!

Patrick


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