From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 07/02/2026 02:31, c186282 wrote:   
   > Proper coding and nobody will over-write yer buffer.   
      
   The problem comes when you interface to TheRealWorld™ and some nasty   
   little bugger sends you e.g. an Ethernet packet that is completely   
   illegal in a creative sort of way.   
      
   Or halfway through a sequence of instructions referencing a variable,   
   your code gets interrupted and that variable changes value.   
      
   Or as was done in military code. a massive EMP pulse scrambles the CPU   
   and you have to reboot from ROM...just separate code fragments with   
   hundreds of JMP REBOOT instructions...   
      
   The idealised world of the computer scientist does not occur in practice.   
   My friend who was involved with the ACORN boys tells of a time when   
   random crashes would occur every few hours. They are unable to eliminate   
   the cause, but by adding wait states they increased  the interval to   
   every few hundred years, which was good enough for PFYs in the parents   
   basement.   
      
      
   --   
   Karl Marx said religion is the opium of the people.   
   But Marxism is the crack cocaine.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)