alt Hacker NewsHow can it be surprising that a software made from 40+ million lines of memory-unsafe code has hundreds of critical bugs?
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0xbadcafebee • today at 12:26 AM
Funny how OpenBSD is "memory-unsafe" yet doesn't have these issues. Could it be that the programmer might have something to do with it?
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More than half of those lines are from drivers, drivers which wouldn't be relevant to a VM environment. Core kernel code for any particular architecture is less than 10 million, but some of that is filesystems or subsystems not in use or available to an unprivileged user on a typical server, so possibly maybe 5 million or less. And the article says they only targeted 2.8 million SLoC.