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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> This allows people to make proprietary implementations of TCP under
> Linux.  And we don't want this just as we don't want to add a way to
> allow someone to do a proprietary Linux VM.

	Erm... What stops those who want to do such implementations
from using AF_PACKET and handling the whole thing in userland?