On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:28:23PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Matt Kraai wrote:
> 
> > The "User" config setting is not sufficient for
> > contrib/linux-tor-prio.sh's UID-based traffic prioritization since it
> > sets the UID after the sockets are created.  The UID is set after
> > sockets are created so that they can be bound to ports less than 1024.
> > 
> > Processes with Linux's CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICES capability can bind to
> > ports less than 1024 without having to run as root.
> > 
> > If possible, keep this capability and switch UID before opening the
> > sockets.  This allows both UID-based traffic prioritization to work
> > and binding to ports less than 1024.
> 
> Do you want to submit that directly to the tor bug tracking system?
> That'd enable upstream to give direct feedback for your patch.
> 
>   https://trac.torproject.org/5220
> or
>   https://trac.torproject.org/8195

Done.


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