Answering some questions about these issues today, I wrote:
[...] when reviewing these, a lot of them were non obvious unless you had
the source in one window, the protocol headers in another and the protocol
spec in a third. This was tedious work to cross-reference and confirm or
refute each report [...]
which reminded me that huge thanks are also due to Matt & Gaetan and everyone
else who helped getting our documentation modernized.
As tedious as this work was, it was far better than if we had to page through
paper manuals or the old postscript dumps from the old nroff specs - having
html specs online with links to jump directly to the right call encoding or
description made it much faster to see which values could be large enough to
cause overflows, or what values we should be checking to limit the values to.
So once again, thanks for making our specs more usable!
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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