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On 5 October 2011 01:49, Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net> wrote:
> An assert, or some other check would work. Could you just add "EndWaitSkip - StartWaitSkip" somehow? I just worry that some day it won't be 16 bytes any more....

Well, the linux code is 32 bytes rather than 16.

And it should be easy to extend the range to 32 bytes instead of 16 bytes.

Unfortunately the patch doesn't (yet) work, I'm going to do some more
in depth testing next week.

Thanks,


Adrian