On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:52:02PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 09:28:59AM +1000, raf wrote: > > > > Thanks. This is the result of lazy coding in a nasty language. > > > I should stop hidden static buffers, or switch to a language > > > has automatic destructors like C++ or Go. > > > > > > Wietse > > > > or Rust! :-) > > We all have our favourite much safer than C compiled languages. Rust is > not a bad choice for avoiding mutable shared data, my choice in that > space these days is Haskell. Pity Wietse and I are unlikely to find a > better C that we're both presently comfortable in. > > Migration away from C is not an urgent problem in Postfix, as you > probably know. Thanks to Wietse's diligence, C footguns are exceedingly > rare in Postfix. This one creates no notable issues, just returns an > incorrect answer from some "postconf -xd" recursive expansions. > > -- > Viktor. Yes. In Postfix's case, migration away from C would be a huge investment with very little return (no matter how lovely other languages might be). I'm happy as long as "postconf -x" works (without -d) in existing versions, and that looks fine. cheers, raf
