Anatomy of a bug – how Mac OS X chokes if you say "FILE"

Heard about the OS X bug that crashes programs if you display the text FILE colon slash slash slash? (We’re not going to write it here in full, just in case!)

It’s an intriguing problem – Paul Ducklin explains what goes wrong, and offers you two workarounds.

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Story added 6. February 2013, content source with full text you can find at link above.