Re: Invalid address causes Kannel to crash (was: (no subject))

Kalle Marjola wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > The server should not crash, just because a invalid address has been
> > passed to it.  I should be able to pass anything into this of any length
> > and the server should return a status saying, invalid address, but it
> > should NOT crash.
> >
> > Am I alone in thinking this?
> 
> No you are not. There should be no PANIC (or similar thing) anywhere in
> smscconn -modules (or sms-services or whatever). I should have written
> this to smscconn.h long time ago but of course forgot to :]
> 
> Maybe someone could add to guidelines something like:
> 'In any case, the smscconn module is not allowed to panic and it
>  must check all inputs for data validity before calling octstr
>  (or other) functions that might PANIC'

+1, agreed fully.

Stipe

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