[BusyBox] udhp/dhcpd.c (lost/rejected) patch

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Dec 18 21:47:19 UTC 2004


On Saturday 18 December 2004 11:36 am, Doug Kehn wrote:

> Just because I've never observed udhcpd crash doesn't
> mean that it never has or never will.

The same logic could be applied to the init, or to the kernel, or the hardware 
overheating, or a hard drive crash...

You're providing code to defend against a non-problem so that if it did out of 
the blue start to happen, you could band-aid it instead of fixing it.  This 
kind of defensive programming sort of defeats the purpose of busybox, doesn't 
it?

Rob



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