Re: This might not be the proper place but...

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunitysec com>]

It's because there's no DCOM in Unix. It's why Unix sucks. In Windows, 
you' d be using a COM object to do this sort of thing instead. In Unix 
it's impossible to expose an object  to multiple languages easily, and 
impossible to consume that object with multiple languages. Maybe if unix 
had a halfway decent RPC system you wouldn't see this?

-dave


David Maynor wrote:

> Why is it it seems that every c coder that runs into a problem or
> something a bit hard they turn to system() to solve it? Everybody has
> seen it, most people turn a blind eye like its their drunk uncle at a
> christmas party. 
>
> "Just ignore him, it will be over soon."
>
> If you are not aware of what I am talking about, let me explain. Its
> starts off simple:
> char buf[1024];
> sprintf(buf, "cp %s %s.old; rm %s; touch %s", filename, filename,
> filename, filename);
>
> Thats not that bad. A slight feeling of dread maybe, but nothing that
> bad. THEN IT HAPPENS:
> popen(buf, "r"); OR system(buf); OR exec(buf);
> I don't know about you folks but i start feeling sick. Not normal sick,
> but like I had drank a bottle of jaeger and wake up with a MCSE sick. If
> you don't want to use the language to do stuff, why not use another
> language? This always seems to pop up in code that would be better
> written in python or perl anyway.
>
> I am not above admitting I am wrong about this. Opinions, comments,
> suggestions for drinks that take away the pain of this sort of activity?
>  


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