Systemspace Network List
Network Enhancement Idea 11
Yori
25 August 2021
# RESPONSE TO INPUT ON SPECIFICATION FOR ETF
## Context
Quintuplicate in NEI 10 (INPUT ON THE SPECIFICATION FOR THE ETF) has commented on the ETF.
=>https://quintuplicate.neocities.org/nei/nei10.txt NEI 10
## Response
There is a reason for trying to strip out ```\r\n```: it's not a useful distinction in most systems and tends to create issues.
While I do write applications that tolerate ```\r\n```, it causes headaches with lower level code and is responsible for real world bugs and vulnerabilities.
For example, a badly written program may split just by ```\n``` and generate sub strings with loose ```\r```. When the program tries to compare this substring to a value, you will get a bug.
```
char* a = "a bad substring\r";// pretend the string 'a' is created by a badly written line spliter or whatever
if(strcmp("a bad substring", a) == 0)
  return 1;
return 0;
```
This code will return a 0 not a 1.
Not to mention, basically everyone except Windows uses '\n' instead of '\r\n' and I honestly don't want to include Microsoft-isms and most other platforms have moved on.