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aykutsekertoday at 8:39 AM1 replyview on HN

good example from the article: the chroot+nss CVE. the rule that nss is dynamic and dlopens libraries from inside the chroot isn't anywhere obvious. it's encoded in 25+ years of sysadmins finding it out. clean-room rewrites end up re-learning that, usually as new CVEs. and LLM ports of the same code inherit the problem: the function signature is what they read, but the scars are what they need.


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catafluttertoday at 8:55 AM

> the function signature is what they read, but the scars are what they need.

This feels like a golden quote. Don't know if you intended for it to rhyme, but well done :D

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