Quote: Very Hacky Indeed

Submitted by Jeremy
on August 19, 2008 - 4:45am

"The delta cache was really a huge hack that just turned out rather successful. It's been hacked on further since (to do some half-way reasonable replacement with _another_ hack by adding an LRU on top of it), but it really is very hacky indeed."

Perhaps

Anonymous (not verified)
on
August 19, 2008 - 10:08am

Perhaps we can avoid many security issues by having a secure basis.
A smart memory handling system and by using technologies such as address space randomization, automatic tests, stack-smashing protection, etc.

Or by using languages that do safe allocations, etc.

Bit of a non sequitur,

Nony Mouse (not verified)
on
August 19, 2008 - 5:23pm

Bit of a non sequitur, security was not mentioned once I don't think.

Hmmmm

on
August 19, 2008 - 6:30pm

I wonder if someone's beta testing a troll/spam bot that goes off of keywords ("hack" in this case) in an attempt to be on topic. If so, then I imagine it'll show up with links in the blather at some point.

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