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by e40 821 days ago
They may not fix it, but my understanding is they are relying on undocumented features and that's always a crap shoot. My company does low-level language stuff and we've been burned like this, too. We decided not to trade performance for compatibility in the last decade or two.

EDIT: maybe not undocumented, but undefined behavior?

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Documented in the POSIX specification. It is a kernel bug.