On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-usen...@hjp.at> wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp nominated the C/Unix guys: > > http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365
Besides what Kaz and Chris wrote, the suggestion that if they had chosen ptr+len format then we wouldn't have buffer overflows is erroneous. There's a difference between a string and a string buffer, and the metadata records the length of the string, not the size of the buffer, and so the gets function in that parallel universe would be just as broken as the one in ours. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
