Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes
Gork@lemm.ee 3 months agoAh, makes sense. I guess a driver would completely freak out if that file gave no instructions and was just like “…”
Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes
Gork@lemm.ee 3 months agoAh, makes sense. I guess a driver would completely freak out if that file gave no instructions and was just like “…”
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You would think that Microsoft would implement some basic error handing.
planish@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That’s what the BSOD is. It tries to bring the system back to a nice safe freshly-booted state where e.g. the fans are running and the GPU is not happily drawing several kilowatts and trying to catch fire.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 months ago
For most things, yes. But if someone were to compromise the file, stopping when they see it invalid is probably a good idea for security