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secondary damage
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n. When a fatal error occurs (esp. a segfault ) the immediate cause may be
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that a pointer has been trashed due to a previous fandango on core. However,
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this fandango may have been due to an earlier fandango, so no amount of
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analysis will reveal (directly) how the damage occurred. The data structure
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was clobbered, but it was secondary damage. By extension, the corruption
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resulting from N cascaded fandangoes on core is N th-level damage. There is
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at least one case on record in which 17 hours of grovel ling with adb
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actually dug up the underlying bug behind an instance of seventh-level
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damage! The hacker who accomplished this near-superhuman feat was presented
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with an award by his fellows.
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