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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4594) topology fix for goto route packet
From: "Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:53:06 -0700
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>>>This is a *bad* fix. Requiring clients to do things in order to prevent
>>>server crashes just violates fundamental programming norms.
>>
>>Of course, the patch does exactly the opposite.
> 
> It *requires* clients to send only normal positions. You stress this twice
> in the above lines. That really doesn't seem like just "the opposite" ...

It does exactly the opposite because no matter what the client sends, 
the server will not crash.

jason
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