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
next prev parent 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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