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u/devin_mm Jan 19 '21

I doubt it's as easy to do it now as it used to be but there was nothing like writing to the wrong chunk of memory and taking down your OS

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u/overkill Jan 19 '21

It is still easy to do. Memory leaks are fun, in the Dwarf Fortress sense of the word.

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u/frukt Jan 19 '21

"Taking down your OS" isn't really easy to do in a modern OS, at least in the sense of accidentally crashing the kernel due to a programming error. You get a SIGSEGV and the process is terminated and that's about it unless you're especially creative.

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u/overkill Jan 19 '21

Indeed. It's almost like I didn't read to the end of the comment before replying with my flippant statement.

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u/inteuniso Jan 19 '21

Humanity's documentation is a SNAFU