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Re: FYI: 7-gary-_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH-break-3.patch
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: FYI: 7-gary-_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH-break-3.patch |
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Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:31:27 -0700 |
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Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:03:36PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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>> Applied to HEAD.
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> Why? Is it _safe_ to assume how deeply nested we are?
My impression is that he was just trying to patch the problem without
trying to come up with a more-general solution. _AS_PATH_WALK is
documented to be poorly-designed, and _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK is
inheriting that poor design. It'd be nice to fix the overall problem,
of course.