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From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:13:50 +0000

> These functions are used in relation to conninit messages which, on the
> incoming side are checked in dn_nsp_in.c:dn_find_listener() via the
> calls to dn_check_idf() so that we should never queue an incorrectly
> formatted message to the socket. The intent was that all messages should
> be checked as early as possible on entry to the code so that we can then
> rely on their content later on without needing to check again.

Ok, so we should be find here.

Thanks for the explanation Steven.