warbosstodd@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoWe Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking - It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blogphoton.codesexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10 cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarepelya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·22 days agoI can tell it’s some 32-bit millisecond counter without even opening the article. 49 days period is too specific. And since I did not hear anything about MacOS network stack catastrophically breaking on any servers, the impact should be small.
minus-squarechtk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·22 days ago 49 days period is too specific. 49.7 days is also the maximum uptime for Windows 95 and 98.
minus-squarefallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 days agoNo it’s not. That’s just the point at which a timer overflows which could cause a problem but it doesn’t guarantee one.
minus-squareAatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days agohttps://www.cnet.com/culture/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/
I can tell it’s some 32-bit millisecond counter without even opening the article. 49 days period is too specific.
And since I did not hear anything about MacOS network stack catastrophically breaking on any servers, the impact should be small.
49.7 days is also the maximum uptime for Windows 95 and 98.
No it’s not. That’s just the point at which a timer overflows which could cause a problem but it doesn’t guarantee one.
https://www.cnet.com/culture/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/