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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Remote UDP support
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CDC337D.4050407@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <o5lmas2frn.fsf@toenail.toronto.redhat.com>

> 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.  A judgement call regarding 
suitability is required, however the user making the decision needs to 
be fully informed.

Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-10 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-08 16:26 Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-08 16:58 ` Michael Snyder
2002-05-08 17:11   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-08 21:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 17:39 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-08 17:53   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-08 19:56     ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-08 20:01       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-09 11:37         ` Michael Snyder
2002-05-09 11:44           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-09 14:18             ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-09 14:20               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-09 15:27                 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-09 20:51                   ` Jim Blandy
2002-05-09 21:28                     ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-05-09 21:45                     ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-09 22:32                       ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-05-10  8:18                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2002-05-10 13:54                         ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-05-10 13:57                           ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-05-10 14:07                           ` Martin M. Hunt
2002-05-11 12:12                 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-11 14:32                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-11 15:01                     ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-12 18:22                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-12 21:44                         ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-13 10:42                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-13 14:06                             ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-13 21:32                               ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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