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Lit. Buffer overruns 1706


Sure. And how do you think limits are imposed? It's handshaking between the application, the user, and the operating system with the constraint imposed by hardware. If your app code can't request core from the OS, the everybody and his brother is going to have buffer problems: overruns, too many, too few, underruns (nobody thinks of that as a security issue...think again), catch-22s, deadly embraces, and others that I've forgotten.

Lit. Buffer overruns 1708
Ok. I'll try to watch for different meanings. So far, I hadn't detected any. Note that there are many ways to "allocate" many flavors of space...

A very carefully written program can experience this just by not complying with impositions, or buttuming that constraints can't be enforced or modified.

IMO, not much.

They may know that something called that exists because the TTY screen wrote the words, but they have no idea what it is. These are people who've never seen a memory location and the contents of that memory location.

Not all the time.

I'm looking at buffers at all levels of a computing environment; it depends on what hat I've donned for moment.

They cancelled the storm. No snow, all rain. Now I'll never be able to do a second field test of my new toy. I'm not unhappy. I think my magic incantation of 18" plus the fact that I went out and bought milk kept the snow line north.

Lit. Buffer overruns 1707
snip I'm having flashbacks to the days when I, a junior person doing mainframe systems-level programming...

BAH

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