Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 10:25:45 +0200 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old Stuff Message-ID: <DE342552-6D0E-453E-874D-48A8539B5895@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BQLa9DnEmC0fK81rHGCsuextpN%2BUjMbraUFKBz0DYeDbz%2BTjg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BQLa9DnEmC0fK81rHGCsuextpN%2BUjMbraUFKBz0DYeDbz%2BTjg@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 24 Jul 2019, at 18:57, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and = remove all > of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and = safer. Keeping 32 and 64 bit code has an interesting side effect. It kinda = forces to keep some discipline, same as keeping big endian and little endian code. It can be a bit of a pain in = the ass but it forces you to be more careful. > In this same vein, let's deprecate and remove things like telnet and = ftp. I don=E2=80=99t understand why. Both tools can be useful in certain = situations. For instance telnet is the most immediate way to check wether a service is working and a bunch of = important Internet protocols were actually designed so that they could be tested with a simple = telnet.=20 =46rom a different point of view, ssh can be more prone to buffer = overflows due to more complex code ;) Borja.
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