On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:13 +0100, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Yegor Yefremov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Øyvind Harboe <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Yegor Yefremov
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> I found some short description about TFTP support in OpenOCD but it
> >>> seems to be restricted to eCOS or ZY1000 debugger.
> >>
> >> eCos has as tftp filing system, surely Linux has that.
> >>
> >> However, are you sure that you want to use tftp over some
> >> other more normal file sharing protocol between linux machines?
> >
> > I just got used to this feature on BDI2000. And implementing TFTP
> > client would make getting remote files independent of what OS you're
> > running OpenOCD on.
> 
> A tftp server opens up security issues which I think is better left
> to a real host OS, given a choice.

Hah! We can't even make _vague_ assurances about OpenOCD security.
There are hundreds of ways to exploit the code right now.  It should not
be hard to write TFTP code that is far more secure than the rest.

> I don't see any good reason for OpenOCD to replicate all the file system
> work done on linux.

Just like there's no good reason to implement a telnet server, HTTPD
server, or... wait, nevermind....

--Z
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