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Date:      15 Aug 1998 21:41:20 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Joseph Stein <joes@shasta.wstein.com>, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64-bit time_t
Message-ID:  <xzpsoiyt4m7.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Brett Glass's message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:20:25 -0600"
References:  <199808141733.LAA24664@lariat.lariat.org> <199808141820.MAA25200@lariat.lariat.org>

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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> 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
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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