onlinepersona@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 5 days ago"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens - 07/01/2024xeiaso.netexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens - 07/01/2024xeiaso.netonlinepersona@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoThe trope will be “old” once the mainstream view is no longer that C-style memory management is “good enough”. That said, this particular vulnerability was primarily due to how signals work, which I understand to be kind of unavoidably terrible in any language.
minus-square5C5C5C@programming.devcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoA better language wouldn’t have any need to use POSIX signals in this way.
minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoI’m not totally clear on why signals are used here in the first place. Arguably most C code doesn’t “need” to use signals in complex ways, either.
The trope will be “old” once the mainstream view is no longer that C-style memory management is “good enough”.
That said, this particular vulnerability was primarily due to how signals work, which I understand to be kind of unavoidably terrible in any language.
A better language wouldn’t have any need to use POSIX signals in this way.
I’m not totally clear on why signals are used here in the first place. Arguably most C code doesn’t “need” to use signals in complex ways, either.