netdev - Re: [PATCH][RFC] tcp: fix ambiguity in the `before' relation

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:01:57 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@...hat.com>
To:	Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] tcp: fix ambiguity in the `before' relation

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:51:16AM +0000, Gerrit Renker wrote:
>      
> |  2) Change before/after such that before(x, x+2^31) == !before(x+2^31, x).
> This is what the new definition does: in the old definition we always have that
> before(x, x+2^31) == before(x+2^31, x).

Sorry but the new definition has exactly the same problem since

	before(x, x+2^31) == before(x+2^31, x) == 0

While the old definition had

	before(x, x+2^31) == before(x+2^31, x) == 1

Both are equally bad.  It's only unambiguous if

	before(x, x+2^31) == !before(x+2^31, x) == 0

or

	before(x, x+2^31) == !before(x+2^31, x) == 1

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