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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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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Didn't windows XP have a similar bug? Related to the windows uptime counter, iirc.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    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.

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