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Re: query: how many use PHP for linux scripts [message #185930 is a reply to message #185926] Wed, 14 May 2014 22:10 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On 14/05/14 22:18, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> writes:
>
>> On 14/05/14 19:00, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 14/05/14 13:39, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> <snip>
>>>> > A PHP translation of C string handling would inevitably be simpler since
>>>> > there would be no need manage the storage. That's the biggest advantage
>>>> > in my opinion, even if never used any of PHP's more complex string
>>>> > manipulation.
>>>
>>> ACK.
>>>
>>>> when managing storage is no harder than
>>>>
>>>> char buf[1024];
>>>>
>>>> I cant see the issue.
>>>
>>> What happens when you store a string (say, user input) with more than
>>> 1023 bytes in buf? Oh, well, of course you won't--good luck.
>>>
>>
>> I make sure I don't.
>> strncpy...
>
> Well, I never saw that coming. You must be one of the few experienced C
> programmers to consider strncpy to be a solution for anything!
>
>> If I really dont know, well then calculate first and malloc.
>
> ...but then memory management is not a simple as a declaration (which is
> where this started). In PHP you need neither.
>

well there ya go.

IF I have a string too long for my buffers something has probably
already gone wrong.

And Id rather not push the system into swap - easier to say 'hey buffer
overflow' and abort.

With PHP, throw it too big a string and weirdness happens as it eats
into memory.



And you still need to do things like mysqli_free() to clear down data
structures.

Inconsistent.

> <snip>
>


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