On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 11:37:26 +0100 Edward Bartolo <[email protected]> wrote:
> My 'irrational' choice of C language for backend. > > As a coder, I lack knowledge and experience. This is plain clear from > the code I can write, but I offered my very limited coding > capabilities to help, notwithstanding I knew, I would have been a > dwarf among giants. Your code was fine Edward. You used a few strcpy() instead of strncpy(). Big deal --- it's less than an hour's work to fix it. You used the literal SSID for a filename, creating an in for ESSID "; rm -r $HOME". I'd like to criticize you for that, but that was *my* idea. So I guess I'm a dwarf too. I'm not concerned: I make mistakes, that's why my pencil has an eraser. You may have made some other very esoteric "bad decisions" regarding defending against very determined hackers. Fine: You got your code out there, people warned you, you changed it. You know who I think is the giant? The guy who actually writes the code to do the job. The guys who find the mistakes are essential, but they're supporting actors: The star is the guy who writes the code to solve the problem. SteveT Steve Litt August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
