Wizard-level questions

[Guy Harris]

>Besides getpeername, there is the concept of privileged ports in UNIX.
>They can be allocated only by root, and presumably root writes only
>trusted programs. Like sendmail, ftp, and finger :-)

In addition, that concept doesn't exist on other OSes, so if you have a
program that expects only privileged programs to be coming in from
privileged ports, may I attach a PC running DOS and some TCP/IP software
to your network? I'm sure it'd be lots of fun....