Doesn't mean you should risk a takeover of all your game databases because you decided to bypass every single security measurement linux has in place already.

Doesn't mean you should risk a takeover of all your game databases because you decided to bypass every single security measurement linux has in place already. I'd argue it's even worse, and network programming wise I'd argue that every custom implementation of TCP/UDP was broken in the past and lead to a lot of remote exploits, and eventually was abandoned due to maintenance costs. Just think about the shitshow of the source engine, for example. RCE'ing in the wild for what, 14+ years now? Took a long while and a lot of steam runtime sandboxing code to fix the decision to use a custom unsafe networking code.