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Re:Fuzzing ping(8) and finding a 24 year old bug by noAnswer on Sunday December 11, 2022 @08:03AM (#33942800)
It's called "Defence in depth".

There could be an unintentional or flawed kernel change. Someone could use the code on a different OS with a different behaving or buggy kernel.

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Re:Fuzzing ping(8) and finding a 24 year old bug by readthenotes1 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @07:29PM (#33949301)
You could also consider it high coupling between two completely different code bases.

Or, the crime of making someone understand everything in order to understand some thing...

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