Re: [ossig] Secret Windows Code Leaked On Internet

["T.Iskantharajah" <iskantharajah@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

about secret_sys_calls,

There  has been books published before about undocumented windows......


Julian Gomez wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:10:22PM +0800, Uwe Dippel spoke thusly:
> 
> (snip)
> 
> >With the best of intention, once you know a solution to a given problem it
> >is very hard to 'forget' that solution on purpose, in order to write one
> >that is not derived from the first one.
> 
> You are making the assumption that there is *only* one solution.
> 
> >The programmer hired by me and knowing about 'that secret sys_call' will
> >be less productive than the one untouched; because the latter doesn't need
> >time to forget and won't while time away thinking: 'what a bunch of
> >buggers not to permit me to use this.'
> 
> Again, I think you're making the assumption that said secret sys_call is
> the better method in which to solve the problem. But I haven't followed
> this thread closely.
> 
> >who's still waiting for the first reports of code quality. Would be fun
> >to know that they have trunks of dead code lying around for the simple
> >purpose that the compilation dies once it is removed !
> 
> So? A number of major OSS projects have got dead code lying around. Samba,
> Linux kernel, Apache etc. A source untar of samba-2.2.8a, with a trivial
> find of all *.c files; including comments == 250,000+ lines. Assuming
> 150,000 lines are comments, that's 100,000 lines of code.
> 
> When you take into account that code lying around can be due to:
> 
> o  Ex-programmers quitting a project.
> o  Certain portions being too hard to read/parse.
> o  Making changes causing unwanted breakage in critical portions.
> o  Scheduled code overhaul/rewrite in the near future.
> o  Backwards compatibility.
> 
> I think its completely understandable, if not completely desirable.
> 
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