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We Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking - It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blog (photon.codes)

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[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Just reading this gave me a flashback to the old Windows 9x issue where, if you left a machine running "too long", it would crash. 😅

Can't recall the number of days, though. 38? 68? 78? Something like that.

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[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

That's not a thing.

At 49.7 days a timer overflows. That could cause problems... It doesn't guarantee problems.

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[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

That's the one. And fair enough.

Had a couple of users tell me it crashed their PCs, but that was my only reference.

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