From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 1 6:52:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EC515383 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 06:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03605; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:50:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36DAA948.690A1354@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 07:50:48 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cobalt blames linux for their security problems! References: <19990228143304.A4692@holly.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Costello wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 1999, Julian Elischer put this into my mailbox: > > > > > > http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18109.html > > > > There's a good idea.. use a free OS and then blame it for your problems.. > > > > BTW did I tell you about the huge security holes we got from BSD (only > > kidding) > > > FreeBSD is a bad OS. This ASM code causes a memory fault! > This simple C program: int main() { int *badboy = 0; *badboy = 3; return *badboy; } when run on FreeBSD produces: wes$ ./a.out Segmentation fault (core dumped) It runs fine on DOS, so FreeBSD must be wrong. Can you send me free hardware to fix it? Alternatively, you should upgrade all InterJets in the field to MS-DOS 2.11 so this program won't crash anymore. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message