Reply to post: re Using zero terminated strings in C didn't turn out to be the best design decision ever

BOO! Grave remote-code exec flaw in GNU C Library TERRIFIES Linux

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re Using zero terminated strings in C didn't turn out to be the best design decision ever

Why the downvotes? Seems a perfectly reasonable comment.

C pretty much makes buffer overruns the default behaviour. Nice one K&R, nice one.

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