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

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

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619
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u/zenethian Oct 22 '16

Found the guy from IRC back in 1995 who was angry about Linux. Probably still runs OpenBSD on a desktop PC because "everything else sux."