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DasBlonde. On lean startups, cloud computing, identity and whatever else comes up. Omar AL Zabir on hard to find tech stuffs. Ayende Rahien. In my previous post, I started to go over the go-raft implementation, after being interrupted by the need to sleep, I decided to go on with this, but I wanted to expand a bit first about the issue we discussed earlier, not checking the number of bytes read in log_entry’s Decode.

Ayende Rahien

Let us assume that we actually hit that issue, what would happen? The process goes like this, we try to read a value, but the Read method only return some of the information. We explicitly ignore that, and try to use the buffer anyway. Best case scenario, we are actually getting an error, so we bail early. ScottGu's Blog. ScottGu.com. Scott Hanselman. According to the Microsoft Support website: "Core isolation is a security feature of Microsoft Windows that protects important core processes of Windows from malicious software by isolating them in memory.

Scott Hanselman

It does this by running those core processes in a virtualized environment. Memory integrity is one feature of core isolation which regularly verifies the integrity of the code running those core processes in an attempt to prevent any attacks from altering them. We recommend that you leave this setting on, if your system supports it. " Cool.