http://www.gizmodo.com.au the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:59:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/twenty_five_year_old_unix_bug_finally_fixed-2/ http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/twenty_five_year_old_unix_bug_finally_fixed-2/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 20:10:00 +0000 Jason Chen http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/twenty_five_year_old_unix_bug_finally_fixed-2.html We’re not sure why nobody’s caught this bug until now, but OpenBSD developer Marc Balmer has just closed the book on a 25-year-old flaw affecting BSD file systems. He found it when an OpenBSD user emailed him about SAMBA crashing, which he then traced to a workaround SAMBA used to function correctly on BSD systems, which he THEN traced back to a flaw that existed since August of 1983. This bug is in every single BSD system since then, including Mac OS X. The code itself was a very trivial fix, which makes it all the crazier that it took 25 years to do so. [OS News - Photo credit]

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