[PD-dev] about [tcpserver] (mrpeach and iemnet)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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.

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