27 September 2020

16 links · Sunday

A tale of two libcs

I received a bug report from Debian today, who had fed some garbage into scdoc, and it gave them a SIGSEGV back. Diving into this problem gave me a good opportunity to draw a comparison between musl libc and glibc. Let’s start with the stack trace:

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Vote Save America 2020

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LEd – 2D level editor

LEd LEd is an open-source 2D level editor, with a strong focus on user-friendliness. Why another editor? LEd is based on my personal experience creating Dead Cells and making game jams. My goal is to provide an editor that have all the important core features …

Microsoft Releases Bridge to Kubernetes

Earlier this week, Microsoft released Bridge to Kubernetes, a Visual Studio extension that allows developers to write, test and debug microservice code locally while consuming dependencies from a Kubernetes environment. The purpose of this extension is to simp…

ShopBack and RedDoorz report data breaches

The local authorities are investigating a data breach at home-grown e-commerce cashback platform ShopBack, after the firm made public an incident involving unauthorised access to customers' personal data.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A tale of two libcs

I received a bug report from Debian today, who had fed some garbage into scdoc, and it gave them a SIGSEGV back. Diving into this problem gave me a good opportunity to draw a comparison between musl libc and glibc. Let’s start with the stack trace: