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21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug! (itsfoss.com)
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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 44 points 5 hours ago

After digging through the codebase, Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names. When a window title was too long and needed to be truncated, the algorithm responsible for doing so had no iteration limit. So it would spin indefinitely, locking up the desktop entirely.

Ah, no wonder it went unfixed for so long, most people would just rename stuff and carry on

this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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