RE: Off topic programming thread

[madsaxon <madsaxon () direcway com>]

At 09:36 AM 10/27/03 -0600, Schmehl, Paul L wrote:

> > Can we move this irrelevant programming thread somewhere
> > where it is on-topic?  It may be interesting, but it belongs
> > on comp.programming or something.  I might be willing to
> > join in, but it doesn't belong here on FD.
> >
> I have seen irrelevant stuff on this list.  I fail to see how a
> discussion of buffer overflows and race conditions in code is off topic.
> I suspect that many people, including myself, would benefit from a
> better understanding of how and why they occur, and what needs to be
> done to fix the problem.

Agreed.  I find this discussion to be one of the more
on-topic I've seen here. Let's not discourage it, shall we?

m5x

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