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Re:The Several Million Dollar Bug by MichaelGG on Monday June 09, 2014 @06:41PM (#7870922)
How would it even validate the request was sent first? It'd have to keep looking at the receive buffers and make sure they're always zero until it knows it actually sent the last packet. Right?

It sounds like it'd be hard to implement and for what benefit?

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Re:The Several Million Dollar Bug by jacquesm on Monday June 09, 2014 @06:50PM (#7870958)
That was the million dollar question and I gambled that I understood enough of the implementation details that it would be impossible to close the hole. That didn't stop me from living in fear of just that :)
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