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How I fixed git-grep macOS UTF-8 support

As a speaker of Greek, I’ve been fixing issues in the handling of non-ASCII characters for over 40 years, using techniques ranging from simple lookup tables to dynamic patching of in-memory images. Here’s how I debugged and fixed the handling of UTF-8 characters in the git grep command, which was broken for almost a decade.

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The sorry state of software quality

Thanks to a tweet by Aaron Toponce I learned about the Linux /dev/full pseudo-device. Write system calls to it always fail with a ENOSPC (no space on device) error. With it finding software that doesn’t check for failed writes is a piece of cake. Let’s see this in action.

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