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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