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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by benhurmarcel on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:57PM (#26585276)
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by Blackthorn on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:59AM (#26588882)
My favorite part of that story is how the initial question about overflow should make it obvious that what they're doing doesn't work, but nobody noticed.
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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by umanwizard on Friday March 26, 2021 @02:24AM (#26589288)
Is it an overflow because `int` was typically 16-bit in those days?
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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by Blackthorn on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:14PM (#26599592)
Yeah.
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