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by AnIdiotOnTheNet
1327 days ago
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There have been some notable application-specific hacks applied, at least in previous generations of Windows. SimCity comes to mind: it used memory after free and Windows... 95(?) broke it, so a hack was put in place to explicitly allow processes named simcity.exe to use memory after free. Or something like that. |
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What people miss from the story is why it was so important that Microsoft do that (and it's a similar reason to why Linus insists on never breaking userspace).