I randomly decided to check out how #firejail is doing and discovered something as mysteriously creepy as this:
https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/7247#issuecomment-5814519490
These might be unrelated to memory safety in particular, I dunno, but still, please, please, please don't start new #security critical things in C anymore. This has nothing to do with programming language cults; it just becomes overwhelming for OCD'ed guys like me to involuntarily audit things written even with much more recent stacks than this.
I guess #hostapd will be one of the next ones. Wish there was at least A SINGLE alternative implementation in whatever better language. Not another coreutils, not an entire OS or something. Just the WiFi hotspot thing through which you're probably currently connected right now.
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