APR a Safe C library?

2015-08-28 Thread Tristan Leask
Hi all, Not sure if this is the right place to ask or not, so sorry if it isn't. I am currently using the APR library in conjunction with the Active MQ CPP connector, so that I can produce and consume topics over an Active MQ bus. Recently I have asked to evaluate the security of our system

Re: Time for APR 2.0?

2015-08-28 Thread Michael Schlenker
Am 28.08.2015 um 01:53 schrieb Noel Butler: That's why I want us to extend cmake to do the unix build as well. The biggest bitch I here from *nix/bsd system admins everywhere is cmake, the largest bitch is people know how to use --with-foo --with-bar now after decades, THEY,

Re: Time for APR 2.0?

2015-08-28 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 27, 2015, at 7:53 PM, Noel Butler noel.but...@ausics.net wrote: That's why I want us to extend cmake to do the unix build as well. The biggest bitch I here from *nix/bsd system admins everywhere is cmake, the largest bitch is people know how to use --with-foo --with-bar

Re: Time for APR 2.0?

2015-08-28 Thread Rainer Jung
Am 28.08.2015 um 15:20 schrieb Michael Schlenker: Am 28.08.2015 um 01:53 schrieb Noel Butler: That's why I want us to extend cmake to do the unix build as well. The biggest bitch I here from *nix/bsd system admins everywhere is cmake, the largest bitch is people know how to use

Re: Time for APR 2.0?

2015-08-28 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Aug 28, 2015 9:24 AM, Rainer Jung rainer.j...@kippdata.de wrote: Am 28.08.2015 um 15:20 schrieb Michael Schlenker: Cmake provided project/nmake/make files have one issue though, which might not be obvious to someone never using cmake: Those depend on cmake for a variety of tasks (e.g.

Re: APR a Safe C library?

2015-08-28 Thread Daniel Lescohier
I really like the apr memory pool functions (aka arenas or regions [1]); it makes it easier to write memory-safe code. Of course, it is still the C programming language; you don't have compile-time enforced memory safety like with the Rust programming language, for instance. But these APR memory

Re: APR a Safe C library?

2015-08-28 Thread Jeff Trawick
On 08/28/2015 06:04 AM, Tristan Leask wrote: Hi all, Not sure if this is the right place to ask or not, so sorry if it isn't. I am currently using the APR library in conjunction with the Active MQ CPP connector, so that I can produce and consume topics over an Active MQ bus. Recently I have

Re: APR a Safe C library?

2015-08-28 Thread Wes Garland
It's used by Apache httpd. I think that pretty much says everything you need to know :) Sent from my iPhone On Aug 28, 2015, at 6:04, Tristan Leask tristan.le...@enghouse.com wrote: Hi all, Not sure if this is the right place to ask or not, so sorry if it isn't. I am currently using the