Sam Bayne wrote:
> Hee hee, perl doesn't have pointers, but it DOES have references.

Really?  I thought those were new in Perl 5.6.

> they have some idiot protections WRT segfault.) The thing that is really
> confusing about C's pointers is not the "they're memory locations"
> thing,
> it's the way they get shuffled back and forth with pointer or array
> notation at the programmer's whim.

Just tell yourself that "There's more than one way to do it"!  :)

> Ok, that was the actual question I was dancing around, so the
> commandline
> parser( I assume one of exec()'s brethren, whatever inetd is using) is
> responsible for bounds checking these then?

Honestly don't know.  I suspect that it's a kernel limitation.


MSG


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