INET SETOPTS

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 03:19:15PM +0200, Valentin Micic wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> At the present moment (and this seems to have been the case in the past as well), any process that have an access to 'Sock’ may issue a successful call to inet:setopts( Sock, [{active, Flag}] ).
> Is it safe to presume that this is going to stay this way going forward, or, are there plans to change this behaviour to allow, say, only “controlling process” to issue such command?

We will not change existing API:s such as inet:setopts/2, but a new
API, for example socket + net, may benefit from protecting especially options
that control process communication such as {active, Flag} to only be used
by reasonable processes (the controlling process).

> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> V/

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB