<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 18, 2019, at 2:39 AM, Töma Gavrichenkov <<a href="mailto:ximaera@gmail.com" class="">ximaera@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 18, 2019, 4:06 AM Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">You’ll also have to rewrite the linux kernel which treats all of <a href="http://127.0.0.0/8" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">127.0.0.0/8</a> as quasi-automatically configured on interface lo.</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Yes, things like that are what's implied under "a substantial number of patches". But this particular one is probably the simplest case. OTOH embedded junk can be tricky in that regard.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">--</div><div dir="auto" class="">Töma</div><div dir="auto" class=""></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Yes and no… It’s simple until you think about the number of implementations in the wild that are actually making use of this “feature” in production for a variety fo interesting cases.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>