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Re:Links Programming Language by rarestblog on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:18AM (#2004606)
So basically it's some kind of entry point with arguments? Wouldn't that be a huge security hole? I mean it's just buffer overflow, without even a need to overflow, in plain sight...
Re:Links Programming Language by Yoric on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @12:22PM (#2004881)
I'm not exactly sure how they do it in Links these days. If they still take the naive approach to continuations, yes, that's a huge security hole. However, there are moderately simple ways to make this security hole magically disappear. You keep most of the agility and none of this vulnerability.