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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 month ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 109 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's easy, just call it Jhon\nDoe

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (3 children)

John\0Doe will fuck with all C (and C based derivatives) software that touches it.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago

Nah, it will end up simply as "John" in the database. You need "John%sDoe" to crash C software with unsafe printf() calls, and even then it's better to use several "%s"

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

C and C derivatives will be fine unless they're fucking up encoding.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Which rarely, if ever, happens. Especially with US software.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

With an address in 's-Hertogenbosch to help people who are lazy about escaping.