Re: Wanting opinions...

[NZG <ngustavson@emacinc.com>]

> I vote for controversy
Me too, It's always better to talk it out, as long as we can avoid shouting 
and name calling.

> If controversy means:
>
> "As part of the recent "string cleaning", countless occurrences of strcpy,
> strcat, sprintf, and vsprintf were replaced with bounded,
> safer variants like, strlcpy, strlcat, snprintf, vsnprintf, and asprintf
That's very nice, but regardless of how pretty they have implemented sprintf, 
it still doesn't run on 90% of the hardware I need to run it on, so it's 
pretty useless.

As I prevously pointed out, I am not a net-admin, so I am probably not looking 
at BSD from the same perspective as a lot of you, but then again, neither was 
the original article which is attempting to make the point that BSD should 
replace Linux in it's entirety.
This is impossible, as they simply do not have the code base, their sitting 
around tweaking their server stuff to be super stable, which is good, but 
they are ignoring the embedded community and real time control.
Not all systems are Pentium based.

Here's a good article about this from Linus's perspective.
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249

NZG.









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