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		veave on June 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Lin... If a javascript program crashes the interpreter that is a bug in the interpreter. I don't understand how this is even a discussion. In the era of IE6 there were lots of one-liners that could crash the browser and no one would blame whoever wrote them.

mike_hock on June 24, 2023 [–]

In the interpreter, yes, not the kernel that enforces a reasonable stack limit.

realitythreek on June 24, 2023 | [–]

It had already been fixed in the kernel. Linus tends to agree with it being a bug.

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