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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:13:07 -0700

> Do we have to worry about self inflicted infinite loops?
> Shouldn't there be some way to some basic validation?

We do, and there is.  You obviously didn't read Thomas's patch.

He prevents loops by only allowing forward gotos.