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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





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