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From: vax@no.permanent.address (VaX#n8)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Networking code stability
Date: 13 Oct 1994 01:28:33 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
: Linux networking code isn't *bad* -- it's just a from-scratch rewrite
: that still has quite a way to go to be production quality.  On the

I have heard rumors (i.e. I haven't seen this first-hand!) that the latest
version of "slap" (I've heard that's the new name for term?), which uses
UDP and TCP packets both, has a tendency to panic Linux systems, due to
"less than robust" programming practices.  The consensus, right or wrong,
is that Linux networking has a ways to go.  They say this is so because
a normal user process can reliably crash the system.
I'm sure you will find several people who think it's just fine, though;
for most purposes it is (just "don't move your arm like that" the doctor
said :) Then again, why reinvent a wheel with a broken spoke?
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