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Re:This should never happen by chopin on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:22PM (#11399342)
This one is compelling.

However this might not have caught the error condition described upthread. That condition might have overwritten data or moreData without touching s1 or s2.

Otherwise, great!

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Re:This should never happen by onetimePete on Friday April 01, 2016 @10:56AM (#11405198)
Reminds me of a stack canarys, stuff you put on the feet off a stack and check with the scheduler.

Also to all those ready to do a checksum on a struct, rememember that structs are plattform dependant (padding bytes).

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