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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Banish ALL kinds of g_assert from epan (dissector) code?

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:27:51 -0600

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> It's not that I don't want to fix bugs (I'm doing that continuously for
> the time being), but IMHO it's more important to have a non crashing
> Ethereal than to fix the bugs.
> 
> Single packets marked as [Dissector Bug] will be much more user friendly
> than a crash because of a g_assert().
> 
> Any objections against this?

Sounds good to me.  The ability to make Ethereal crash remotely would be
considered to be a security risk in many circles.

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