[Development] Proposed API addition to QTcpServer

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 13 de junho de 2012 14.06.49, lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> >5.0 vs 5.1:
> >The issue seems like it should be rare under normal circumstances.
> >(Qt is not a toolkit for high load servers, and the default quota is ~1k
> >file descriptors)
> >However the consequences are severe.
> >It's also a "denial of service" vulnerability, mitigated by the fact that
> >QTcpServer only accepts 30 connections without application interaction
> >(by default)
> 
> I'd say let's add it for 5.0. It's a small addition and solves a potential
> security problem.

I agree. There's no source incompatibility with 4.8, it's just a new signal 
and plus some code handling error conditions.

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