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Re:FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs, re... by oblio on Monday August 21, 2023 @07:47AM (#37208193)
Not just in BSD... GNU wasn't much better.

People would be shocked by how little the core tools we use were tested automatically. Some still aren't.

Re:FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs, re... by Quekid5 on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:52PM (#37215845)
Quite.

Thankfully the practice of just randomly shelling out to 'random' programs (like the core tools) has been stemmed somewhat, so perhaps we're mostly safe from RCE via that vector. Downloaded files might still be a vector, tho. Maybe I'm an optimist even though I sound very pessimistic.