Thanks to LA CocoaHeads on my pasteboard bug
Thanks to LA CocoaHeads on my pasteboard bug
- Subject: Thanks to LA CocoaHeads on my pasteboard bug
- From: Gordon Apple <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:50:04 -0500
Thanks to last Thursday's LA CocoaHeads meeting, we found a bug in my
software that I had been looking for for a couple of days.
I have been laboring under the illusion that individual applications
should not be able to crash the system. Wow, was I wrong. I found that
with anything that uses the pasteboards (in this case the drag pasteboard),
it is possible to bring down the system big time. I was messing it up so
bad that I was unable to quit or force quit ANY application or restart from
the menu. The only way out was to force a reboot from the power button on
my new MacBook Pro.
I fear that someone might be able to exploit this to install a rogue
background application that would make the machine unusable. I would hope
that there might be some way to protect against this.
--
Gordon Apple
Ed4U
Little Rock, AR
email@hidden
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