Re:Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp
by ScottBurson on Saturday December 27, 2014 @03:24PM
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I distinctly recall, c. 1983, that 'read' was called as part of the NFILE protocol.
The reason I noticed was that I had created a package that did not use 'lisp:', and therefore 'nil' was no longer 'lisp:nil', which broke the NFILE client.
Maybe this got fixed sometime between then and 8.3. (Or maybe NFILE was ripped out altogether?)
I also recall that Jeff Schiller found some remote vulnerabilities. I don't know if they involved 'read', but they certainly could have. Again, this was long before 8.3.
The reason I noticed was that I had created a package that did not use 'lisp:', and therefore 'nil' was no longer 'lisp:nil', which broke the NFILE client.
Maybe this got fixed sometime between then and 8.3. (Or maybe NFILE was ripped out altogether?)
I also recall that Jeff Schiller found some remote vulnerabilities. I don't know if they involved 'read', but they certainly could have. Again, this was long before 8.3.