[Mono-list] robust mono-handle-d?

Dick Porter dick@ximian.com
Mon, 3 Jun 2002 11:57:46 +0100


On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:01:27AM +0200, Dennis Haney wrote:
> 
> Should the daemon be able to handle malfunctioning/malacious clients
> or should it just trust the clients are correct? Right now its the
> latter and it will fail missirable if received packages are
> malformed. Shall I prepare a patch to make it more robust?

It needs to be fast.  If someone wants to go to the trouble of breaking stuff
for themselves, thats their problem.

It does rely on the packets being atomic and in order, but that should
already be covered.

- Dick