[lvm-devel] [PATCH] dmeventd protocol versioning mechanism

[Milan Broz]

On 03/21/2011 04:32 PM, Petr Rockai wrote:
> it is not (safe), on the other hand there's code in other places in
> libdevmapper-event that assumes correctly formatted messages and will
> segfault otherwise.

Reminds me famous last words: "dmeventd cannot segfault" :-)

We should be more careful at least in new code, it should not hurt much
to reject garbage on input.

Milan