On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:25:58 -0700 Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> ...with some way of preventing infinite loops in the kernel, even if > it's as crude as "there's a pointer into the packet and if you do a > backwards jump without moving that pointer forwards and checking to > make sure you haven't gone beyond the end of the packet, the filter > program immediately fails". (Yes, that means it's no longer > Turing-complete, as there's no longer a halting problem. :-)) That's exactly what my LOOP instruction suggestion does. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
