Hacker News
new
|
past
|
comments
|
ask
|
show
|
jobs
|
submit
login
carterschonwald
on July 19, 2024
|
parent
|
context
|
favorite
| on:
The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was ful...
The strange thing is that when I interviewed there years ago with the team that owns the language that runs in the kernel, they said their ci has 20k or 40k machine os combinations/configurations. Surely some of them were vanilla windows!
dboreham
on July 19, 2024
[–]
They used synthetic test data in CI that doesn't consist of zeros.
dlisboa
on July 19, 2024
|
parent
[–]
Fuzz testing would've saved the day here.
azemetre
on July 19, 2024
|
root
|
parent
|
next
[–]
I’m sure some team had it in their backlog for years.
queuebert
on July 19, 2024
|
root
|
parent
|
next
[–]
That team was probably laid off because they weren't shipping product fast enough.
0x6c6f6c
on July 19, 2024
|
root
|
parent
|
prev
|
next
[–]
Oh yeah, FEAT#927261? Would love to see that ticket go out
TeMPOraL
on July 20, 2024
|
root
|
parent
|
prev
[–]
Why not? It's unlikely it was the
last
null byte in the data file that killed the driver.
Guidelines
|
FAQ
|
Lists
|
API
|
Security
|
Legal
|
Apply to YC
|
Contact
Search:
