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Date:      Sat, 17 Jun 2000 05:02:45 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c  src/sys/syssocket.h
Message-ID:  <394A87E5.2DC2CF05@newsguy.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006152200020.14352-100000@redfish> <394A838A.F3417365@newsguy.com> <200006161951.PAA18933@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> [Discussion redirected.]
> 
> <<On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 04:44:10 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> said:
> 
> [Wow, what timezone is that?]

.jp

> > After seeing the code, I can't see why can't userland provide the
> > strings to be matched.
> 
> I would be willing to tolerate a hack which allowed users to specify a
> specific *character* to wait for (which in most line-based Internet
> protocols would be '\n').

Alas, I'm thinking... What happens if you never get a valid match? Have
we just introduced a new way to DoS ourselves?

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
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