meaning of firehose syndrome
1. firehose syndrome In mainstream folklore it is observed that trying to drink from a firehose can be a good way to rip your lips off. On computer networks, the absence or failure of flow control mechanisms can lead to situations in which the sending system sprays a massive flood of packets at an unfortunate receiving system, more than it can handle. Compare overrun, buffer overflow. [Jargon File] firewall 1. firewall code. 2. firewall machine. firewall code 1. The code you put in a system say, a telephone switch to make sure that the users cant do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users dont even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a cant happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage. [Jargon File] firewall machine
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