I've never seen anyone else do this, but I press left Ctrl with the fleshy pad under my pinky. So it's just a small flick of the wrist instead of a large rotation I'd need to use the finger.
Would you also argue that the technical quality, efficiency, capacity, performance etc. of a piece of machinery, too, is way less important than the social and political values of its manufacturer? Say, a piece of medical equipment used in a hospital to keep a patient alive.
I'm sure nobody will, but I disagree that it's an apples and oranges thing. But for you I'm willing to instead offer an example of a CNC machine making parts for... anything. The question and comparison is at its core still just as valid and relevant. Is the result way less important than "feeling good" about the solution?
Yeah, in C++ code it seems to stop at the first hint of a NULL pointer or SIGSEGV, even if you're just trying to reproduce a crash that's not realistically exploitable.
It's not just syscalls. If you trust all of the running code, you can use a single address space for all applications and even the kernel, which lets you avoid TLB flushes.
Whether that's still a good idea given Spectre is another question.
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