# Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel – Skroutz Engineering

<https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old-bug-in-the-linux-kernel/>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is a fun read of a particularly tricky bit of debugging. If you are curious how some of these bugs are so difficult to find, this may give you some deeper appreciation.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT174: Weekly Thing #174 / Responsively, Underline, Skittish](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/174/), FYI

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