C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel

From: Adrian Hoe (adrianhoe_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 11/12/03 

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:17:16 +0800

Hi,

Thought this would be an interesting article to share. Someone should
convince Mr. Torvalds to switch to Ada. :)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33855.html 

-- 
Adrian Hoe
m a i l b o x AT a d r i a n h o e . c o m

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