From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 15 12:42:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00966 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 12:42:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00953 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 12:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id VAA25225; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:41:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:41:21 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Joseph Stein , mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t References: <199808141733.LAA24664@lariat.lariat.org> <199808141820.MAA25200@lariat.lariat.org> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 15 Aug 1998 21:41:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brett Glass's message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:20:25 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA00956 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass writes: > At 10:46 AM 8/14/98 -0700, Joseph Stein wrote: > > There is no such thing as a "safe" tool. You can write code in assembly > > language and still end up with security holes. > Of course. Assembly language has even fewer safeguards against shooting > oneself in the foot, though in many cases it's easy to spot and prevent > problems than it is in C. Brett, I know someone who would *love* to talk to you. His name is Scott Nudds and he hangs out it comp.lang.c a lot. Now can we put an end to this ridiculous flamefest? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message