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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] acme, rio workalike available in plan 9 ports
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:31:59 +0200
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> A buffer overflow in strcmp is now present in practically every binary on
the system.

WTF?  strcmp() is not exactly _hard_ ...

if the system is requires shared libs to be maintainable it is, by
definition, unmaintainable.

on 1 MIP VAXes we could re-compile the whole kernel in less than 20 minutes.

now, on plan 9 you can do it in 20 seconds (or less).