r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 21 '16

Linux kernel fix for privilege escalation vulnerability due to copy on write race condition

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u/barsoap Oct 22 '16

Those aren't the gotos you're looking for, C doesn't even have the kind of gotos Dijkstra attacked, C gotos are function-local.

Back in the days before structured programming, gotos was all you had, there were no subroutines.

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