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Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard November 5, 2007

Posted by Jason in Computer/Internet Security.
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Leopard’s Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. I first came across it when Samba crashed while I was moving a directory from my desktop over to a Samba mount on my FreeBSD server.

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1. Playncapparma - December 20, 2008

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