> $MS is admitting serious buffer overruns  (read as <bad programming
> practices>) in its NT4, Win2K,  and XP versions.

I once read a book by some uSoft bloke about 'good programming
practices'. Some of his advices made me shiver (knowing that I and the
rest of the world use a lot of uSoft products). For instance, on
checking the result of malloc() (for NULL == out of memory) he wrote
that this is a good idea in principle, but not always possible in
practice. I hope every uSoft programmer affected by such ideas spends
his entire life within that company, and never switches to realy
dangerous work like embedded programming!

Wouter van Ooijen

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