Re: Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

On 2006-01-19, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> > It is precisely this power that makes C such a dangerous
>> > language to program in -- it's what makes it so easy to crash
>> > your program, any other program running on the same machine,
>>
>> Nonsense. Under Windows 3.0 that may be true, but on any real
>> OS, you can't "crash any other program running on the same
>> machien" in C, assembly, Python, or Lisp.
>
> given that it's trivial to create fork bombs and memory monsters in all
> those languages, I think you might need to define the term "real OS".
>
> (or do you run all your programs in a virtual sandbox ?)

I guess I never called that sort of DOS attack "crashing"
another program. If that's the sort of think he's talking
about, those are just as trivial to do do in Python as they are
in C.

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