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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:09:28 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Steve Sizemore <steve@ls.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Re: NFS -current
Message-ID:  <3E82B1B8.65D4375B@mindspring.com>
References:  <200303260034.aa92057@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <3E81160B.E5406C60@mindspring.com> <20030326035938.GF1713@dan.emsphone.com> <3E816243.AED1CB4F@mindspring.com> <20030327070317.GA19434@math.berkeley.edu>

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Steve Sizemore wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:18:11AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > In fact, the only legitimate argument I have ever heard for UDP
> > has been "I have an old Linux install that can't talk TCP, as
> > only UDP was implemented at the time I installed it".
> 
> Have you already forgotten the locking problem that you were
> helping me with last week? The only solution was to use UDP.

Working around a screwed up implementation is not a "legitimate"
argument.  The only legitimate argument to that is "unscrewing"
the implementation.

8-).

-- Terry



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