Microsoft now blaming the EU for the crowdstrike issue, because the EU made them open their APIs to third party developers in 2009 is hilarious.
If your APIs had any kind of gracious error handling, this wouldn’t be an issue. Fix your bad code, Microsoft, stop pointing fingers.
@thelinuxEXP So as a Linux user, your contention is that a ring 0 privileged application, with root access to all kernel functions, should never be able to crash the system?
@bouncing No, it’s that the OS should be able to recover gracefully, not go into a BSOD boot loop
@thelinuxEXP @bouncing Recovering from a panic is *really* hard, because it only happens when kernel-level code has done something *bad*. Or unthinkable, sometimes.
Last I checked, Linux still panics when device drivers or kernel modules get page faults (although, as I recall, they do have *some* impressive isolation for that, so they simply shut off the module in some cases; this is not helpful when the filesystem is the thing that panics, though).
@thelinuxEXP @bouncing TIL computers can (re)boot, shut down, crash and recover “gracefully” 