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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-30 13:50:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!peernews-us.colt.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn14feed!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!rwcrnsc54.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F79EC72.3@comcast.net> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <3F78E850.8010401@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc54 1064955018 24.34.139.183 (Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:50:18 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:50:18 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:50:18 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35 Date: 2003-09-30T20:50:18+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>As for a Get_Line function returning an Unbounded_String, > > Isn't that an open invitation to a denial-of-service buffer (available > RAM) overflow? Then don't use it when reading from an untrusted source. You will always have the option of choosing a fixed buffer size and reading into it without the possibility of overflow that exists now. But just because there are some programs where it may cause problems isn't a reason to deny it to others. -- Robert I. Eachus "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig