Alain escribió:
> Nicolas Alvarez nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/02/28 11:16:
>> Alain escribió:
>>> The error message should read "Buffer overflow", not "Out of memory".
>>>
>>
>> That will scare the hell out of users who know those two words related 
>> to security vulnerabilities.
 >
> Undetected buffer overflow is bad. Detected ones or those that cause a 
> process to abort are usualy not a problem.
> Alternately, it could be "Work buffer full", or "Buffer fault".

*I* know that, but go explain it to naive users, who have "buffer 
overflow = security exploit" on their heads.

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2005/05/17/buffer-overflows.aspx

Also, the buffer didn't overflow. It reached a limit, and stopped there. 
So such a message would be incorrect anyway.

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