Didn't Windows 95 do this too?!?

[dheadshot@mastodon.social]

@cstross
Can we crash macOS by creating a folder called "con" inside another folder called "con" as well?

*Windows 95 peels off mask* "And I would have got away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling security researchers!"

[oddhack@mstdn.social]

@oclsc @cstross Free/OpenBSD do not count?

[tclark@mstdn.social]

@cstross I've had multiple uptime durations in excess of 90 days on my current Mac mini....

[wraithe@mastodon.social]

@cstross Ok, I went and read it and I’m still tentatively gonna call bullshit on that dev.

My primary laptop is currently running at over 4 months of uptime, I have over a dozen client (I’m in IT) machines with 5-9 months of uptime.

My work laptop doesn’t sleep/hibernate as it’s tethered to a screen so that’s a continuous 127 days.

I have an iMac Pro sitting next to me on the floor that’s been running for 245 days straight.

[wraithe@mastodon.social]

@cstross And before anyone asks*, the client machines are wide spread of OS versions (because I’m kinda behind on bringing everything forward & I don’t quite trust macOS 26 fully yet )

*no one was going to ask.

[wraithe@mastodon.social]

@Chigaze @cstross Yeah, Michael Tsai is indicating it may be legit but Tahoe (26) only, although he’s not confirming fully either.
In which case, it’ll get patched next update or two.
(h/t to @ednl in the post thread)

Michael Tsai - Blog - Tahoe TCP Overflow Bug

(mjtsai.com)

[oclsc@mstdn.ca]

@oddhack @cstross Both have cat -v and worse.

[oddhack@mstdn.social]

@JdeBP @oclsc @cstross for more context see Norman's paper here: https://vtda.org/pubs/AUUGN/AUUGN-V04.2.pdf

[lain_7@tldr.nettime.org]

@JdeBP @oddhack @oclsc @cstross

I attended a mid-80s Unix conference (Toronto) where Rob Pike complained that “cat went off to Berkeley and came back waving flags”. I think his talk was an early exploration of what would become known as “the Unix philosophy”

[oclsc@mstdn.ca]

@JdeBP @oddhack @cstross From 1984-1990 I worked in the Bell Labs Computing Science Research Group, the folks from whom Unix originally came. At the time we still ran our own Unix; colloquially we called it Research Unix for cultural reasons.

Our cat had no options at all; it just read as much as it could in each go and wrote the same amount, so -u was no longer needed. That's the way cat should be.

That the completely different group responsible for the commercial System V product, in a completely different part of the company in a facility four miles from Murray Hill accepted that abomination was irrelevant to us.

Research Unix wound down not long after I left, though there is no direct connection between those events.

My standards are unreasonably high, yes. We were an arrogant bunch, yes. But philosophically we were right.

The even-greater iconoclasm visible in Plan 9 comes from the same place.