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Where "can't" means "they don't want to because they want to reserve themselves the ability to screw their users by shipping devices with OSX or derivatives ins

by devit 11y ago

Where "can't" means "they don't want to because they want to reserve themselves the ability to screw their users by shipping devices with OSX or derivatives installed where the user cannot change the software, which the GPLv3 is specifically designed to prevent". Considering handling paths is one of the most fundamental functions of the Unix tools and C library, having buffer overflows there is quite damning.

daenney 11y ago
Regardless of your personal dislike of the vendor, there have been plenty of buffer overflows and other bugs in coreutils/fileutils. The Mac/BSD user space is by no means an exception.
- lmm 11y ago
  Which is a real indictment of C, when programs this simple have bugs this severe.