> > Second: in my opinion, using libpcre in not a very wise idea: > > 1. it's slow, at least slower, that posix regex > > 2. it's unstable/insecure, just like the whole exim mta > > (well, it's not a piece of shit, like some other solutions > > I've seen, but on the other hand, it's not so great) > > I strongly oppose to this statement, being a long time Exim user in an > ISP-Environment I can say that Exim is imho one of the most stable and > reliable OSS-Projects i have ever worked with. I also think that most of > Philip Hazels code is very well documented and easy to follow, do you > have a more detailed explaination why do you think that Exim and/or PCRE > is unstable/insecure ?
Comparing to qmail, exim is a piece of shit. How many bugs in exim were discovered in exim this year? In qmail: 0 (zero). Only problem with it is that when glibc has been updated, qmail stopped compiling, because 'errno' variable was declared as: extern int errno; instead of: #include <errno.h> No bugs were found in qmail since version 1.03, released 1998. Once again, how many bugs were discovered in exim since 1998? > PCRE is too used in a wide variety of high profile OSS-projects I don't > think they would use it if it's really unstable or insecure. 1. libpcre is about 2 times slower than posix regex, for example. 2. I'm not saying that libpcre is a piece of shit, but it is not completely secure. Quoting Bill G., it's "good enough". And only that. Not perfect. And because of complication level, it won't be perfect. But ClamAV COULD be. At least the engine. ---------- Tomasz Klim, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euroneto.pl Phone: +48 61 8433535 Fax: +48 61 8434455 Euronet Sp. z o.o., Dabrowskiego 81/85, 60-529 Poznan, Poland ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Clamav-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-devel
