From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 27 17:36:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA11956 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 May 1997 17:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA11951 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 17:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA00781; Tue, 27 May 1997 17:34:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705280034.RAA00781@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: async socket stuff To: black@zen.cypher.net (Ben Black) Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 17:34:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu, rssh@cki.ipri.kiev.ua, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Ben Black" at May 27, 97 06:16:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > how do you spell kludge? > > > > Why does this qualify as a kludge (and a better question might be "how do > > you pronounce kludge?" :). > > it is a kludge because it is in there for EXACTLY one purpose. you > couldn't use the facilities for any but transferring a file from one host > to another. it is only there to get around a general problem for a > specific application. that's a kludge. It's not generally useful, either. For instance, for POP3 and SMTP mail processing, "." quoting must take place. You have to adulterate the RFC's and *store* the data quoted (assuming that it will be going out on the same type of, or similar, transport it came in on) if you wish to use this facility for, for instance, POP3 lookup or SMTP forwarding. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.