On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 12:35 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:13:19AM -0500, Paul A Houle wrote: > > Automatic memory management, no buffer overflows because the > > authors didn't do string handling with superhuman care, OO programming > > Umm actually thats a very dangerous assumption. If the implementation in > mono is wrong then every app in mono has the hole. We've seen this occur > historically in other 'safe' languages. Also if there are bugs in libraries > it uses they end up everywhere > > > model where people use objects to model the problem domain rather than > > spend 20 years arguing about how to implement a linked list. > > g_list, g_string and friends already provide that interface set in C and > fairly efficiently. Most gnome C apps use them and GNOME has had almost no > buffer overrun problems. Lots of other problems but not those. in addition the execshield tech (gcc/glibc/kernel) makes buffer overflows basically impossible to abuse anyway (like -fstack-protector, FORTIFY_SOURCE, NX, randomisation etc etc) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
