re: cursed 

@munin i mean even if there wasn't in the stdlib, there's cffi

re: cursed 

@atax1a

yeah no this is.....enough to make some assumptions about the behavior of a very badly behaved tool in python.

re: cursed 

@munin do I want to know which tool

re: cursed 

@demize

The behavior we're looking at is certain malware's use of mmap to avoid doing normal file write ops, but then a coworker noted that amazon's cli does other things that are -documented- as "don't do this shit" so it might throw falsepos

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@munin @demize

I wouldn't expect doing mmap to write to a file to be more convenient from Python ~ever. Do you know why people (other than malware authors) do that?

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@robryk @demize

People do all -kinds- of horseshit that looks entirely unreasonable and counterproductive outside of very specific internal contexts.

This is only a problem for the work I do if it's someone in FAANG doing it.

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