From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6aa6d133611419f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-29 10:23:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!torn!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D6E561A.5080307@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Thought this was interesting (Bounds Checking!) References: <3D6688E1.3A1797CC@san.rr.com> <1030464758.505647@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <_L0b9.434$Y3.52721@news.xtra.co.nz> <338040f8.0208280707.7f5ad9dd@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:12:58 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1030641135 198.96.47.195 (Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:12:15 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:12:15 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28565 Date: 2002-08-29T13:12:58-04:00 List-Id: Dan Andreatta wrote: ... > Found the reference > > http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html I find it amusing that this page states This bug is a combination of * A flaw in the design of Windows NT, and * A bounds-checking error in the code that handles high-level console I/O. Now, where are all of those non-Ada programmers that think that bounds checking is unimportant? ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg