Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:15:59 +0900
From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?=
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| Please forget about this topic.
Done... Apologies for sending lengthy comments on stuff that was
old - I half thought I'd seen it before, but my memory just isn't that
good...
| Hmm, as I wrote in a previous message, I myself we should fix the API
| without these "ongoing" stuff.
OK.
| I don't think so. I believe the protocol stack (normally the kernel)
| should prevent (at least) non-privileged users from sending invalid
| packets according to the protocol specification.
Sure. But that wasn't the point - the point is exactly what does get
sent (if anything) when the user does something invalid. I think it is
OK to say that that is implementation defined. No correct application will
ever care. That broken applications behave differently on different stacks
should be a feature, not a bug - it helps identify them as broken sooner.
I certainly wasn't suggesting that the stack should be creating invalid
packets out of invalid user input, and sending that.
kre
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