Re:Privileged Ports Are Expensive (2016)
by pjmlp on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:29AM
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Apparently C developers still don't know what they are doing, after 50 years.
"12. Trust the programmer, as a goal, is outdated in respect to the security and safety programming communities. While it should not be totally disregarded as a facet of the spirit of C, the C11 version of the C Standard should take into account that programmers need the ability to check their work."
"12. Trust the programmer, as a goal, is outdated in respect to the security and safety programming communities. While it should not be totally disregarded as a facet of the spirit of C, the C11 version of the C Standard should take into account that programmers need the ability to check their work."
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2021.htm