On Thursday 07 June 2007, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-07 13:27:49 -0400, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > read what i said again ... the clients are doing write()/read() on the > > double directly, but one side has debugging enabled so it additionally > > does printf() on the values coming across -> bam, server crashes > > So it didn't check its input prior using it.
which is the entire point of this thread ... do you force every application out there to implement sanity checking on incoming float formats (which requires every application to basically read the standard and do bit parsing to make sure the values are valid), or do you do it once in glibc -mike
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