From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3D52FCEA.E61E2F4B@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <80ce6d908233d7814aadd0b75c098154@plan9.bell-labs.com>, <3D52ABC3.8020203@nas.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] a bug in freopen Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 08:57:06 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d93e61e0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Jack Johnson wrote: > ... If the standard procedure is to allow some bugs to be fixed > post-production, it seems no wonder that they've had certain > difficulties with security. It can be safely assumed that any really large software product contains bugs, period. One might as well set up a procedure to deal with them.. As to security flaws, there are numerous contributing factors.