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That code has a race condition :^)
by smegma2 4y ago
That code has a race condition :^)
- xyzzyz 4y agoDid you mean ray's condition?
- snoshy 4y agoOddly apropos anecdote to your pun: About 15 years ago, while working on Windows at Microsoft, a test machine sitting at my desk hit a kernel panic (BSOD). As was standard working on the test team, the machine was already setup for kernel debugging, and so I set out to debug it a bit in order to file a decent bug report. Hours later, I couldn't make sense of it (I wasn't super experienced at this point). A few of the nearby devs couldn't either, and a small troop of us curious enough about the puzzler eventually escalated to the resident wizard, Raymond Chen[1]. Within 15 minutes of checking our work and poking at the machine, he traced the root cause down to a bit flip. Ray's condition indeed. :) [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
- elevaet 4y agoGreat story, a true random glitch. Interestingly, a blog post of his was up on HN front page the other day: "The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077912
- sbierwagen 4y agoRay complained in 2005 that Microsoft sees lots of weirdo crash reports from computers with overclocked CPUs https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35923 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35...
- rvnx 4y agoAwwww, that Windows Me must have been overclocked out-of-the-box considering the amount of BSOD :D