Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_cschubert.com> writes: > I know our code is full of workarounds and theirs probably too. The > question is should we? IMO no. Unfortunately, the world is imperfect and does not care about your opinion. 90% of the hardware we run on deviates from the spec in some way or another and requires workarounds in the kernel. We even have a whole system of quirks for disks and USB devices. Libfetch contains workarounds for buggy HTTP servers. OpenSSH has hundreds of lines of code devoted to identifying the server and selecting workarounds to apply. Without those workarounds, FreeBSD would not be a viable piece of software. Wishing they weren't needed is a waste of time and energy. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Sun Dec 23 2018 - 08:21:59 UTC
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