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Aren't buggy programs who were already sending the flag responsible for their own bugs?

When the kernel breaks userspace, it's a kernel bug. It's a philosophy for system robustness that the kernel has and other operating systems tend to adopt as well. As you get higher up the stack into 3rd party libraries and other programming tools the maintainers often take a more cavalier approach to maintaining compatibility.



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