Hello List,
Saturday, June 02, 2001, 7:24:56 AM, you wrote:
>> I like sendmail, its slow - yes, but it is powerful and this silly
>> bugs are fixed fast. Its just some C-Code, everyone knows this.
LM> Yeah, it is only a few hundred thousand lines of code, and you should have
LM> looked through it for bugs or exploits before you compiled it, right? It
Well, this is a strange argument, sorry.
There is no product without any errors, maybe a "hello world" program.
If you write it in c++, its a design problem if you use a try..catch..
within the main clause or not, for example.
There are a lot of security bugs everywhere in a lot of programs, the most of them are
non-critical to critical, and some fanatic people are screaming about some really
silly problems.
Software engineering is a living process. Bugs are normal, the are
reported and then fixed. Thats all, there are some more important
things in live as "i am the master i have found a (silly) bug".
The peoples are screaming if they found a bug, they are the masters,
but its just a bug, and after the bug is fixed, the problem is over.
If you will find 100 bugs in sendmail they are fixed then after
reporting them. The games is over, the problem is solved. The admin
updates, and thats all. The day continues.
Bugs are +just bugs+ and the are fixed after reporting them.
--
Boris
