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> This is uncontexualized hype And yet just a few days ago there was a thread about sudo's recent heap-overflow issue, where the top comment's first line is:
by throw0101c 4y ago
> This is uncontexualized hype
And yet just a few days ago there was a thread about sudo's recent heap-overflow issue, where the top comment's first line is:
> Sudo must be the program with the largest number of buffer overflows I’ve heard about.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465707#unv_33467000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465707#unv_33467000
- Beltalowda 4y agoIt's not like you need to use sudo on Linux. And sudo has been maintained by an OpenBSD developer since the early 90s. Aside from what the problems and benefits of sudo may or may not be, bringing up sudo in a "BSD vs. Linux" debate is a red herring: it's just completely unrelated.
- gnubison 4y agoNote that OpenBSD now uses the much smaller doas instead.
- michaelmrose 4y agoWhich you can use on Linux however it's missing sudo -e and emacs tramp doesn't work with it. Sudo -e FILE opens a copy of the file with $EDITOR and then moves copy to replace FILE Tramp opens a file including present buffer and writes it as root to achieve the same effect. EDIT Tramp now works correctly for me sudo -e is simple enough to script looks like a winner for simple things when complex isn't required
- Beltalowda 4y agoYes, but it's still a red herring when discussing the advantages of FreeBSD (or OpenBSD, for that matter) over Linux.