warbosstodd@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWe Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking - It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blogphoton.codesexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down131 cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squarerbos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoDidn’t windows XP have a similar bug? Related to the windows uptime counter, iirc.
minus-squaretoddestan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoWindows 9x would crash after 49.7 days. Windows Vista had a bug where the network stack would crash after 497 days, but if you didn’t care about networking the rest of the OS would continue to run.
Didn’t windows XP have a similar bug? Related to the windows uptime counter, iirc.
Windows 9x would crash after 49.7 days.
Windows Vista had a bug where the network stack would crash after 497 days, but if you didn’t care about networking the rest of the OS would continue to run.