warbosstodd@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoWe Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking - It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blogphoton.codesexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1149
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minus-squareAda@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71·2 days agoHeadline: Exactly 49 days First sentence of article: 49 days, 17 hours and change
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 day ago2^32 milliseconds to be exact
minus-squareGormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·23 hours agoAh so it’s an overflow bug
minus-squaresik0fewl@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoIt would have been more correct to say exactly 50 days.
Headline: Exactly 49 days
First sentence of article: 49 days, 17 hours and change
2^32 milliseconds to be exact
(2^32 ) - 1
Ah so it’s an overflow bug
It would have been more correct to say exactly 50 days.