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RE: [Bluez-devel] Qualification Testing

From: Marcel Holtmann <hidden>
Date: 2003-05-13 22:31:32

Hi Max,
Hmm, ok :). But after thinking more about this I think that we probably still need 
some way to tell the apps that link became unreliable. I mean parsing syslogs is 
not very elegant solution :). Also even though Cetecom accepted it as a solution 
other BQBs might not.

Here is what I had in mind. We could add L2CAP socket option L2CAP_RELIABILITY,
which will be used by the apps that are "paranoid" :) about link reliability.
Then whenever we receive corrupted L2CAP frame we'd check connected sockets, attached
to this connection, that have this option enabled and signal error condition on them. 
i.e. read/recvmsg will return error. Application can then either clear that error with 
getsockopt(SO_ERROR) and continue or close the socket.
the idea itself sounds very good. But I see no advantage in implementing
such kind of extra functionality. We can not detect if a frame is
currupt or not, because we have no checksum mechanism. The only thing we
can detect is a length mismatch. What about a corrupted cid? If you
notify the wrong socket and the application on that socket can't deal
with such an error.

Regards

Marcel




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