Réf. : Re: [9fans] mothra

[boyd.roberts@ca-indosuez.com]

given i wrote a DLL (to my shame) once that talked SOCKS4
transparently and sat on top of winsock (ie. it looked like
winsock) i saw what socket calls netscape made.  i was less than
impressed.  i just had a look at the winsock code in mozilla.
yep, as i expected -- clueless bozos.

check this:

   BOOL IsWinsockLoaded (int sp)
   {
        if (hWinsock == NULL)
        {
            WSADATA wsaData;
            WSAStartup(0x0101, &wsaData);
        }
    //  Quick macro to tell if the winsock has actually loaded for a particular
    //      function.
    //  Debug version is a little more strict to make sure you get the names
   right.
    #ifdef DEBUG
        return hWinsock != NULL && spArray[(int)(sp)] != NULL;
    #else //  A little faster
        return hWinsock != NULL;
    #endif
    }

this _abortion_ is called before _every_ winsock call.

duh... load it on startup and chuck away a swath of
redundant, inefficient code;  bugs waiting to happen.

and THIS:

            WSAStartup(0x0101, &wsaData);

a hard wired _constant_?

the prosecution rests.

i even saw a telnet that looped on write() after making an async
connect().  duh, select() anyone?