connect(2) behavior with unreacheable hosts

[Mike Silbersack]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Barney Wolff wrote:

> Mike, I don't think this is a security issue - the client gets an instant
> SIGPIPE if it tries to write on the socket.  I think telnet gets this.
>
> I did try traceroute, since it depends on time-exceeded.  Worked fine.
> Barney
>
> --
> Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf

Ok, so any properly written application will handle the case without
issue, that's what I was curious about.

I'll _try_ to get to committing the patch, but it'll be a few days at the
minimum.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack