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lotharcable | 3 months ago

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jlokier|3 months ago

One of the use-cases of Fil-C is to prevent security issues in old C code that's much older than Fil-C itself.

hulitu|3 months ago

You mean i can compile an old program with Fil-C and my executable will be free of security issues ?

embedding-shape|3 months ago

> Probably not seeing how the code for at least the 3rd was written in 1994, some 30 years before Fil-C existed.

How is this possibly the most charitable reading of parents comment, and honestly, do you think that's what they meant? You can't read that in some other way, where maybe parent wasn't actually asking about time traveling but something else?

lotharcable|3 months ago

Yes it was bit uncharitable, but I couldn't resist based on the way he phrased it. It was just a joke.

"Preventing" the vulnerability would indeed require going back to 1994. Since it is a vulnerability that has existed in every display server released since then.