[Python-Dev] known obvious thing or bug (rexec)?

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Unless there's some reason to believe this would be hard, what's the
> > point?
> 
> The point is to catch the security flaws, and fix them.

I think that Jeremy meant that this is only a useful occupation if you
expect to eventually reach a point where you expect that there aren't
any security flaws left.  Jeremy & I both doubt that Python will ever
reach that level, meaning that the whole exercise of fixing security
flaws is a waste of time (if you know you *can't* make it safe, don't
waste time trying).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)