Re: RFC: OP cheating

[Robert Martin-Legene <robert@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, forcer wrote:

> Hmm... why? just thinking, since each server keeps a record of the clients
> anyways, why not let the server do this?
> I mean, changing a (client-generated)
>         MODE [#&+]channel +[ov] nick
> to
>         MODE [#&+]channel +[ov] nick!user@host
> ?
> That shouldn't be too hard to implement, and wouldn't change anything on the
> client-side.

Because the client could be lagged as well, and this is exactly the thing
we're discussing, isn't it? (The nick being taken over by someone else
before it reaches "some point" in the network).

-- Robert Martin-Legène (RM59), Network Manager, DKnet (AS2109), Denmark

   main(){int a[2],b[2];pipe(a);pipe(b);if(fork()){dup2(a[0],0);dup2(b[1],1)
   ;}else{dup2(b[0],0);dup2(a[1],1);write(1,"R",1);}execlp("cat","cat",0);}