Re: [RFA] Remote UDP support

Martin M. Hunt
2002-05-10T21:07:07Z

On Friday 10 May 2002 01:54 pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > cagney wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> I think there is a subtle difference between someone understanding
> >> that ``UDP is unreliable'' and someone understanding that the remote
> >> protocol doesn't work across UDP.
> >> [...]
> >
> > It seems that this train of thought indicates a self-contradictory
> > attitude. Either the remote protocol is "good enough" over udp, or it
> > isn't. If on one hand you think it's good enough to be included
> > within mainline gdb, then don't argue that it's not good enough to
> > actually work.
>
> Not really.
>
> UDP across the loopback interface is 100% reliable. Across cheap
> overloaded thin-wire definitly isn't.

Not true, but not important.

I don't understand what the fuss is about. The "users" for UDP are not
clueless people who are going to accidently connect to a target with UDP.
They are probably embedded engineers trying to get new hardware running with
GDB ASAP. So warn them, but there is no reason to harrass them.

--
Martin Hunt
GDB Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.