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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
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Subject: Re: BIND is Crying Out for Ada95
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:47:38 +0100
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Lutz Donnerhacke wrote
>Shure, Ada95 might help to prevent buffer overflows, but even Ada95 can not
>create correct code from an incorrect source.

The point is of course to write something new from scratch and take advantage
of Ada.

>The main problem with DNS is the protocol. And the main problem with UNIX
>daemons is the braindead API of syscalls and libraries.

Workarounds exists.


Greetings,