Defensive Programming for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and What To Do If Something Goes Wrong)
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Programming Language APIs and their libraries are often not designed with safety in mind. The API of the C language and the Unix API (which is defined using C) are especially weak in this respect. It is not necessarily the case that all programs developed using these programming languages and APIs are unsafe. In this document we will describe possible problems, how to prevent them, and how to discover them.
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