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- Subject: Re: newproxy() tricks
- From: Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:59:18 +0200
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 09:19:58AM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> [[
> But there is an undocumented function, `newproxy` which creates a
> little piece of 'userdata'.
...
> ]]
>
> Nice ... if it were always true. But I have my doubts, and my feeling
> is to drop this paragraph.
>
Agree. An undocumented function is at best an artefact of some
particular implementation, and any exploitation of it by a user
is a bug just waiting to emerge from its pupa.
Dirk
