Re: Are bad developer libraries the problem with M$ software?

Hey Darren,

DR> It's hard to write secure applications when the interfaces
DR> available to developers don't provide what are considered to
DR> be standard and safe C library calls.  I suppose you might
DR> consider this to be an indication that Microsoft at that
DR> point in time still hadn't managed to build a good set of
DR> safe building blocks for programmers so any wonder that their
DR> platform is still suffering.

A problem of larger magnitude is the quality of the code in most libc's (aside from glibc) as they have never been heavily audited. You would be surprised what you can find there.

Cheers,
dullien@gmx.de

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