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Subj : talking to myself
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Sat Feb 19 2005 12:36 pm

Hello Maurice.

17 Feb 05 10:13, you wrote to me:

 RT>> I wonder what the probability of two seperate systems feeding
 RT>> another system creating identical pkt names and one pkt
 RT>> overwriting the first to arrive?

 MK> Heh, heh.  Good one.  Yeah that looks like a potential bug.  It has
 MK> yet to happen here but I imagine the frontend, binkd for instance,
 MK> ought to be keeping an eye on that possibility and just renaming the
 MK> inbound to avoid conflict.  Besides that, it probably wouldn't come to
 MK> that simply because all incoming pkts are dealt with dynamically here,
 MK> but I suppose it could happen given that the machine doesn't do
 MK> DOS-think and thus isn't limited by the "there can be only one"
 MK> ideology.  I'll see if I can figure out a way to test that and see
 MK> what happens.

Well, the pkts are dealt with dynamically as well, but, even on a 200MMX with 
128 meg. RAM, with all the other things that box deals with, it sometimes 30 
seconds or so after the arrival of a pkt before it gets tossed, enough time 
for mischief, I think.

 RT>> BTW, just picked up a book on "regular expressions" for song here
 RT> RT>> yesterday, so I just might get to do some perl scripting yet.
 RT>> :-)

 MK> An extremely good idea.

Time permiting .... :-)

Russell

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