Smashing Considered Harmful
localroger
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The Night Watch: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf
Indeed, the common discovery mode for an impossibly large buffer error is that your program seems to be working fine, and then it tries to display a string that should say Hello world, but instead it prints #a[5]:3! or another syntactically correct Perl script, and youre like WHAT THE HOW THE, and then you realize that your prodigal memory accesses have been stomping around the heap like the Incredible Hulk when asked to write an essay entitled Smashing Considered Harmful.
Indeed, the common discovery mode for an impossibly large buffer error is that your program seems to be working fine, and then it tries to display a string that should say Hello world, but instead it prints #a[5]:3! or another syntactically correct Perl script, and youre like WHAT THE HOW THE, and then you realize that your prodigal memory accesses have been stomping around the heap like the Incredible Hulk when asked to write an essay entitled Smashing Considered Harmful.
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(Just reading the intro of the .pdf )
Sure, a lock-pick is good to have in your rag-tag band of survivors, but he's completely off about a Systems Programmer.
Yes an SP has seen the horrors and beyond, but... For that reason, most of them are clinically insane, and more likely to laugh maniacally while firing off flares to alert the zombies/mutant hordes/bug-eyed aliens from beta-whatever, than to actually try to survive.
For those wretched souls, there's but one solution.
(Which can't be mentioned here because of the PG rating)
Incidentally, I do know how to pick some locks, and have an OK set of picks...
;-)