Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:13:35 -0800

On 01/24/2018 07:58 AM, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> On 01/23, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>> On 01/23/2018 10:54 AM, Hartman, Steven M. wrote:
>>> Nonetheless, a malformed packet crashing a server would be
>>> considered in bug in the server implementation and should be fixed.
>>
>> I don't think anyone is going to argue that these sort of issues
>> shouldn't be fixed.  The problem is as usual a question of time and/or
>> money.  Actively finding and _fixing_ packet validation issues has
>> never been a priority for anyone.
> 
> Hi, Michael!
> 
> And therein lies the problem: IMHO, it should be a priority for the
> maintainers.  If any software I write crashes due to receiving an
> invalid packet, I would consider that a bug and want to fix it.

I certainly do _want_ these fixed, and am willing to do the
work.  Sadly though, "want" does not automatically translate
into it being a priority on my TODO list (nor I think for Andrew or Ralph).

So this must be the point where I invite you to help out by
contributing time and/or money.  It doesn't have to be to me,
nor through ospreydcs.com, but it needs to be someone.
Otherwise we're left with an
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfunded_mandate

(I would love it if someone would actually pay me to spend time on
Base maintainership work.  Handling user bug reports, reviewing code,
mentoring new developers.  When you find me doing this, consider that
it may well be on my own dime.)

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System