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We finally know what caused the global tech outage - and how much it cost (www.cnn.com)

submitted 3 months ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't it, though? 🤔

IANAD and AFAIU, not in kernel mode. Things like trying to read non existing memory in kernel mode are supposed to crash the system because continuing could be worse.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I.meant couldn't they test for a NULL pointer.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They could and clearly they should have done that but hindsight is 20/20. Software is complex and there's a lot of places that invalid data could come in.