Re: Privilege-escalation attacks on NT-based Windows are unfixable

From: Edward Elliott (nobody@127.0.0.1)
Date: 08/27/02 

From: Edward Elliott <nobody@127.0.0.1>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:46:53 GMT

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> Tore Lund wrote:
>>Maybe the strings you have in mind should be considered to be another
>>data type. (If, that is, a data type is needed for such strings.) The
>>"string" type that we need for displaying and manipulating character
>>data was never meant to hold an encyclopedia.
>
> Gee, what was it intended for, if not a representation of a coherent
> run of text?

65,535 characters is plenty for a "run of text". Linear memory arrays
get very costly to manipulate when they get to be that large anyway.
Look at the Boost library's rope class for a more efficient structure
for very large strings (it appears likely rope will make it into the
next C++ Standard library). 

-- 
Edward Elliott

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