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Anatomy of a bug - how Mac OS X chokes if you say "FILE"
- Sophos - Naked Security
- — 6 Feb 2013, 6:08 a.m.
Heard about the OS X bug that crashes programs if you display the text FILE colon slash slash slash? (We're not going to write it here in full, just in case!)
It's an intriguing problem - Paul Ducklin explains what goes wrong, and offers you two workarounds.