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Comment by senozhatsky | Hacker News Reader

Shall somebody send a pull request [0]

    -    /* XXX this is _not_ designed to be fast */
    +    /* XXX this is _not_ designed to be safe */

[0] https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771...

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/* This function computes the expansion rate of spacetime. This version contains an additional factor that causes it to accelerate to allow for rapid testing of other aspects of the physics engine. This MUST be removed before the production release or spacetime will accelerate forever and experience heat death instead of reaching steady state. -God */

Isn't the line bellow that line enough? /* wordexp is also rife with security "challenges",

My assumption was that those security "challenges" were related to expansion (wordexp()) per se; not to the way wordexp() was implemented in this particular case.

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