@safe and null dereferencing

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 07:50:52PM +0000, Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 July 2017 at 18:46:16 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
[...]
> > I see no problem whatsoever requiring that the platform segfaults
> > when you dereference null. Anything even vaguely modern will do
> > that. Adding extra null checks is therefore redundant and
> > complicates the compiler for no gain whatsoever.
> 
> Except that when someone gets (root) access to any modern Linux
> servers running D services he now has an easy way to create a denial
> of service attack the owner of the server won't easily be able to find
> the cause of, because pretty much everything *looks* right, except
> that somehow the D services hang.

If someone malicious has root access to your server, you already have
much bigger things to worry about than D services hanging. :-D


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