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The strange thing is that when I interviewed there years ago with the team that owns the language that runs in the kernel, they said their ci has 20k or 40k machine os combinations/configurations. Surely some of them were vanilla windows!

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They used synthetic test data in CI that doesn't consist of zeros.

Fuzz testing would've saved the day here.

I’m sure some team had it in their backlog for years.

Oh yeah, FEAT#927261? Would love to see that ticket go out

That team was probably laid off because they weren't shipping product fast enough.

Why not? It's unlikely it was the last null byte in the data file that killed the driver.

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