On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 08:52 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2010-12-13 23:15, Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 14:42 -0500, Martin wrote:
What? It's better to crash the server than to disconnect an unresponsive client?
Why crashing the server? I don't get the alarmism. If a patch needs to
i think martin commented on my "if you rather go and crash or whatever...it's up to you."
and yes, i do think that if i as a patcher decide that it is the proper response to an unresponsive client to fill up the buffer until the server crashes, than i should be able to do this.
It seems that I sidetracked this conversation with my comment that was meant more as a "hmm, this might end up being problematic because its unusual" than arguing against the approach.
"Whatever works" is the key, IMHO.
.hc