Re: W2k/XP hangs with "TAB BS BS" on console

From: IIJIMA Hiromitsu (delmonta@HT.SAKURA.NE.JP)
Date: 10/27/01 

Message-ID:  <3BDA92E6.299452C5@ht.sakura.ne.jp>
Date:         Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:56:38 +0900
From: IIJIMA Hiromitsu <delmonta@HT.SAKURA.NE.JP>
Subject:      Re: W2k/XP hangs with "TAB BS BS" on console
To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM

To correct my previous posting,

> Windows 2000 or XP CRASHES OR REBOOTS when the following code (complied
> either on MS Visual C++ or Borland C++; perhaps on any DOS or Win32-
> console compiler) was executed:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(void)
> {
> printf("\t\b\b");
> return 0;
> }
>
> On Windows 98, nothing happens.
> This is a serious problem.

Please run it by double-clicking this program's icon from Explorer to create
a new console window.

To make system crash by running a program from Command Prompt, you need to
write so many times "\t\b\b" that they make the console's character buffer
overflow.

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