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Sure, but that's bounded by the size of the buffer in Java. A bad boundary to the arraycopy in Java will throw an exception, not give you the contents of memor
by prospero 12y ago
Sure, but that's bounded by the size of the buffer in Java. A bad boundary to the arraycopy in Java will throw an exception, not give you the contents of memory beside the buffer. These are not comparable failures.
- jibsen 12y agoAs I understood it, part of the problem was that they rolled their own memory handling which cached allocations [1]. Otherwise, I imagine system memory protection would have found this much sooner. [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/211963 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/211963