Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns

From: David Wagner (daw_at_taverner.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:09:53 +0000 (UTC)

>You guys need to learn about housecleaning. The best way
>to keep your house clean is to take your boots off before
>entering the house. This was TOPS-10's (an old PDP-10 OS)
>philosophy w.r.t. memory. It cleaned memory with every
>boot and it cleaned memory before it handed any chunk to
>the user, including itself. OSes are users, too.

TOPS-10 is hardly special in this regard. Most modern OSs do the
same. At least, they clean memory before handing it to the user.

If you think this is somehow going to make a big difference to the
buffer overrun problem facing us today, you're not familiar enough
with the problem.

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