[Twisted-Python] What the hell?

Glyph Lefkowitz glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Sun Sep 2 14:47:01 MDT 2001


On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:02:12PM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> 
> > unless there's some particular external API we need to interact with that
> > speaks in terms of sockets...
> 
> This would make it possible to bind() as root in a seperate C program
> and then to drop privs and execute Twisted. Also, that would help if
> you get the socket from another process over a UNIX domain socket.

OK.  First time we see one of these as an actual requirement, let's do it.
'Til then I think it's best to put it off.

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