8 Nov
2021
8 Nov
'21
11:26 p.m.
On Nov 8, 2021, at 5:20 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire
at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 11/8/21 4:49 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Of course. Rule #1 of reliable programming: if your program malfunctions due to input
from outside the system, it's always your fault. It may be true that "the input
was invalid" but that doesn't excuse the malfunction.
Normally "invalid input" includes maliciously constructed input. To pick a
random example, some of the unit test scripts in PyDECnet send random garbage as packet
data to various components, to see if they break. If yes, I fix things.
paul
Just as a warning, the lat implementation have
some bugs. I've never spent the time to figure it out, but at least when talking to
RSX hosts, it triggers some bug in RSX which cause it to leak memory, and eventually RSX
becomes catatonic.
I think most reasonable people would consider that a bug in RSX, not a bug in the Linux
LAT implementation. ;)