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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by AdamN on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:57AM (#50376858)
A 'real' C programmer probably is fine .... but that's like 1% of the population of developers outputting C programs.

And now you have AI that's learned from the other 99% so nothing's changing anytime soon.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by raincole on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:58AM (#50376865)
The problem is most drivers believe they are above average drivers.
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by kleiba2 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:05AM (#50376921)
And almost all of them could be correct.
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by jonplackett on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:12AM (#50376959)
At least 49.999 percent of them anyway
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by kleiba2 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:40AM (#50377571)
Are you sure?
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by hxorr on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:40PM (#50401412)
You are confusing mean and median
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by AdamN on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:14AM (#50390473)
Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average :-)
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by dbdr on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:05AM (#50376913)
I would hope writing C code for the Linux kernel qualifies you as a real C programmer. And yet, here we are. Being good, careful, and extensively reviewed by others helps, but is clearly not enough.
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by rybosworld on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:21AM (#50377853)
> A 'real' C programmer probably is fine .... but that's like 1% of the population of developers outputting C programs.

The idea that there's a small subset of C programmers who can wrangle the language into obeying them perfectly is obviously, a fantasy.

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