Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/fortune fortune.c

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:31:00 -0600 (MDT)
In message: <20050723230711.GD842_at_wantadilla.lemis.com>
            "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog_at_lemis.com> writes:
: > If Rush gets more quotes than normal, and that annoys people to find
: > the real problem, we shouldn't mask it.  It is a really bad choice
: > from a security point of view.
: 
: So it's better to back perfectly valid code rather than to look for
: the real culprit?  What kind of security is that?

I'm saying we should fix the real, underlying problem.  Kludging
around the symptom, like you did with fortune, only prolongs the time
we have the real, underlying problem.

Warner
Received on Sat Jul 23 2005 - 21:30:39 UTC

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