> how seriously they takes them. Sun is getting better. HP is a good
> counter example where the company doesn't provide src and you do
> not hear many people complaining HPUX being so insecure, even tho the
> occasional vulnerability appears from time to time.
HPUX? The system that in 1994 ships with a /bin/sh that is Svr2
vintage (well has all the bugs that Svr2's sh had), that has default
tty edit chars that assume we all still use real ttys (I mean
teletypes), the system that ships a diff that does not know -c ...
SunOS isn't perfect but there's a reason its more popular...
--sjg
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