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Use NSOperationQueue at 2009-05-12 21:18
Tags: nsoperationqueue osbugMac OS X 10.5.7 has shipped and includes a fix for the NSOperationQueue bug that I discovered late last year. I have run all of my old test cases against 10.5.7 and it appears to perform as advertised. As far as I can see, NSOperationQueue is now safe to use. I'm glad that my prediction of no fix until Snow Leopard turned out to be wrong. Enjoy!
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Don't Use NSOperationQueue at 2008-11-30 23:36
Tags: nsoperationqueue osbugI've been discussing this on cocoa-dev but wanted to make a separate post about it to get the word out further. NSOperationQueue is broken on Leopard and will cause crashes. Don't use it!
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Use strnstr at 2008-03-18 20:49
Tags: strnstr security tiger link osbugA few months ago I told everyone not to use strnstr. This bug was fixed in Leopard, but persisted in Tiger. Today, Apple finally fixed it in Tiger. Now you can safely use strnstr. I assume that this bug probably still exists on Panther and earlier, but as long as you're targeting Tiger and up (as every sane person ought to), you are now safe.
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Don't use strnstr at 2007-09-26 00:00
Tags: osbug strnstr security The strnstr function is broken on Mac OS X 10.4 (and presumably earlier) and should be avoided.
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