I'm upset about FreeBSD

[Borja Marcos]

> On 17 Oct 2016, at 02:44, Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> First of all I faced an old problem that I reported here a year ago:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/96598
> Completely new USB flash drive flashed by the
> FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img file kills every Windows
> again. If I use the Rufus util to write the img file (using DD mode)
> the Windows dies immediately after the flashing. If I use the
> Win32DiskImager (suggested by the Handbook) it doesn't reinitialize
> the USB storage and Windows dies only if I remove and put that USB
> flash drive again or boot Windows when it is connected. Nothing was
> done to fix this nasty bug for a year.

I’m afraid that´s a Windows problem. And potentially a critical one. That barfing
upon USB insertion might point to a buffer overflow condition.

Now that people from Microsoft are reading these lists and polishing support for
the Microsoft hypervisor, maybe they should slap some wrists in-house (hard!).
*nudge*-*nudge*-*wink*-*wink*.





Borja.