Hey, he's got plenty of experience with vulnerabilities...

It's a metrics/monitoring company, so I'm guessing sprintf not too much of a risk here. There's some incestuous ISC stuff happening with it, though.

Back then, if you used something else than C, people would discard it as too slow. And almost nobody had learned the chainsaw juggling that is "writing safe C", now mastered by a few superheroes. Most people's creations just died by the wayside, unlike things like Bind and Sendmail and BSD Unix, which got incrementally patched up with varying success.