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john_strinlai 37 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Copy Fail

what value do you believe renaming the variable from "g" to something else provides the linux maintainers?

Xirdus 37 days ago [–]

It makes the exploit code more readable. We all love to laugh at C folks but for real, even Linux kernel maintainers care about readability.

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