Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:16:31 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990720111454.00c64ad0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199907201658.JAA07763@usr02.primenet.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19990719170941.00c38e50@localhost>
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At 04:58 PM 7/20/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > See p2c in comp.sources.unix in ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet/ . I'm very leery of Pascal-to-C translators. Not only are they slow, but they tend to use C's unsafe string handling conventions, which in turn make programs susceptible to buffer overflow exploits. And debugging is very difficult! It's best to get a native implementation. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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