Best of show – abuse of libc

Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by snerp on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:51PM (#25695075)

There is some innocent beauty in the twistedness of printf - especially with GNU extensions.

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by dfcowell on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:59PM (#25695217)

So I can port doom to gnu printf?

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by kortilla on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:14PM (#25695434)

GNU's printf specifier language is Turing complete, I believe.

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by a1369209993 on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:35PM (#25695651)

GNU's printf is Turing complete[0]... so "yes."

[0] Mentioned (but not directly linked) by TFA:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by SahAssar on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:40PM (#25695704)

GNU's printf specifier language is Turing complete, I believe.

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by gu5 on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:51PM (#25697199)

What is up with this thread? These comments are duplicated from the top thread...

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by dang on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:00AM (#25697278)

Is it possible that it's a joke based on the material of the OP? Maybe we're trapped in some sort of International Obfuscated Internet Thread Contest...

Edit: ok, I'm guessing it's a joke about Turing completeness. Loops, you know.

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by saagarjha on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:28AM (#25697973)

It’s a joke about the recursion introduced here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691615.

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by Bootvis on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:27AM (#25699199)

Well executed jokes on HN. 2021 already is a crazy year.

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by gu5 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:07AM (#25697337)

Ohhhh... Now I get it.

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Re:Best of show – abuse of libc by exikyut on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:59PM (#25697266)

(The usernames are different)

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