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| From: | Eric S. Raymond |
| Subject: | Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH]: Handle lack of TIOCEXCL and TIOCNXCL on cygwin |
| Date: | Sat, 6 Sep 2014 14:50:34 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Matt <address@hidden>:
> Getting binaries compiling shouldn't be that hard or intrusive. It's
> getting access to Win32 serial ports and making sense of the data
> that worries me. I'm [sightly] scared of the packet recogniser.
The assumptions in packet_get() about the exact semantics of read()
might be a vulnerability. Otherwise it's just a big ugly state machine
that short port withour difficulty.
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