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We finally know what caused the global tech outage - and how much it cost(www.cnn.com)

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Plopp@lemmy.world
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Couldn’t it, though? 🤔

IANAD and AFAIU, not in kernel mode. Things like trying to read non existing memory in kernel mode are supposed to crash the system because continuing could be worse.

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0x0@programming.dev
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I.meant couldn’t they test for a NULL pointer.

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chaospatterns@lemmy.world
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They could and clearly they should have done that but hindsight is 20/20. Software is complex and there’s a lot of places that invalid data could come in.

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