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a_yank_lurker

Re: Imagine a user...

If you are complaining about Bloat's design it has roots in the CPM/DOS days when there were no hard drives or networks. PCs were completely standalone devices that had exactly 1 user and only 1 user with input either from a keyboard or a file on a floppy. Output was often printed. There were many design decisions that made sense in the old days but have consequences when computers are networked together and it is possible for code from different 'users' to be running simultaneously on the box.

The saving grace of Linux and BSD is they are Unix derived/based. Since Unix was designed for a multiuser environment there were design decisions made that make it more secure.

Back to the bugs at hand, it is unclear which ones are due to ancient design decisions (probably none) and which ones are due to bad code (probably all). Buffer overruns are a programming problem.

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