[557] in Release_7.7_team
Re: 8.0 Sun rlogin...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 30 10:04:16 1996
To: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 May 1996 04:30:51 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:59:05 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I can reproduce this at will and I consider it a 'show stopper' bug
Although this is currently all that I'm working on, I'd like to put
things in perspective here. rlogin is not a well-defined protocol
(because of the way it abuses TCP urgent data), and it is not possible
to implement it properly in the general case. Encrypted rlogin is
especially suspectible to stream corruption because of its <length,
data> representation of the stream. If we treat bugs in such
situations as "show stoppers," we will quickly get ourselves into a
situation where we can't get the release out.
