On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:28AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Steve Sizemore wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:18:11AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > In fact, the only legitimate argument I have ever heard for UDP
> > > has been "I have an old Linux install that can't talk TCP, as
> > > only UDP was implemented at the time I installed it".
> >
> > Have you already forgotten the locking problem that you were
> > helping me with last week? The only solution was to use UDP.
>
> Working around a screwed up implementation is not a "legitimate"
> argument. The only legitimate argument to that is "unscrewing"
> the implementation.
>
> 8-).
I agree with that to a degree - at least from the perspective of a
developer. (If I had the knowledge and time to unscrew the
implementation, I would certainly try.) However, for those who are
primarily sysadmins and FreeBSD advocates, using UDP is a legitimate
alternative to switching to linux.
Steve
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Steve Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, (510) 642-8570
Unix System Manager
Dept. of Mathematics and College of Letters and Science
University of California, Berkeley
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