[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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