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Re:VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape by ikeboy on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @09:27AM (#18399290)
"don't crash" can't be an absolute requirement, because operating systems. I've had programs crash when running out of RAM, I think sometimes there's no way for the OS to recover without killing some programs.

If you absolutely can't crash, you need to build an OS that caters to that - modern OSes explicitly prioritize other goals, like performance

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Re:VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape by FartyMcFarter on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @01:49PM (#18401206)
The usual definition of "crash" does not include "getting killed by the OS while behaving normally".
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Re:VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape by ikeboy on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @02:11PM (#18401400)
If you're in a scenario where a crash can mean a critical security vulnerability, then being killed by the OS can also be, because some parts might continue running with an unexpected state
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