From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:45:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] dmeventd protocol versioning mechanism
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On 03/21/2011 04:32 PM, Petr Rockai wrote:
> it is not (safe), on the other hand there's code in other places in
> libdevmapper-event that assumes correctly formatted messages and will
> segfault otherwise.

Reminds me famous last words: "dmeventd cannot segfault" :-)

We should be more careful at least in new code, it should not hurt much
to reject garbage on input.

Milan