Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On 2024-11-19 20:34, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:57:00 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
 

The other day a daemon program spewed 2 gigabytes of log entries, all
almost identical (the filename changed). The program was
tracker-extract.
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Currently there are many programs that spew chat like there is no
tomorrow to syslog :-/

 My favorite was a Windows process that repeatedly logged the C: drive was
almost full -- to the C: drive of course. Cleaning up after it
successfully committed suicide was fun.
 We had a couple of programs that would politely check for disk space
before running. That worked well for years before the first machines with
TB+ drives showed up.  Back to the drawing board for the disk space
calculation.

You may remember the Borland Pascal code to insert a delay of so many milliseconds in the code. It was simply a noop loop, and the runtime code made a measurement at start. That worked well, till faster computers made the counting time variable to overflow.
I don't remember right now if the code crashed or not. (Google confirms they crashed)
Every program made with those compilers were affected. You needed to recompile with a newer version. (Google said you could apply an external, third party, patch)
Possibly Borland C was also affected, but I do not know.
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=50079
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bds2/ltsn/tpbug.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20787583
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Cheers, Carlos.