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Jan. 8, 2019 by Paul Fletcher

For instance, when a user attempts to open a file from kernel mode, the system needs to inspect the user ID of every user in the system. The privilege checks that are performed on all users are done by running a kernel function that uses the user ID of each user, and the user ID of every user in the system. All the same, the kernel in general is able to check for user-mode or kernel-mode-specific privileges, and that's where the problem comes into play. The system checks for user ID, but only if it knows enough to know that the user ID is on-line; otherwise, the system checks for only the user ID.

Google's patch that resolves the issue found that a number of features were not working properly. The fact that a number of the security researchers had discovered a serious flaw, as well as a number of other issues, was an indicator that such problems still were lurking around in the code.

This was a problem known as a "prelude bug" because it was so poorly coded that it's still in its design stage. It's a hard problem to solve if it's not solved. We've already seen this with the Windows kernel issue, which also found itself in its design stage despite the fact that it didn't affect all the other issues described by Google.

Microsoft has a similar problem. It just doesn't know about it. However, that's what Google discovered in its early research, when it discovered an issue in a patch for Microsoft's own Windows 7. The patch included several new features, such as enabling users to set the minimum size of files that they've open, enabling the Microsoft Office tool to use different sizes, and enabling the Microsoft Word editor to use different sizes. But Microsoft didn't know about them until early in the year.

The fact that Google is so worried about this is a good sign for what's to come. If Microsoft can't be bothered to take their patch seriously enough, then they'll have to find another patch for them and fix it. So far, that hasn't happened.

Google and Microsoft have developed patches for Windows 7 and Windows 8 for various operating systems, while Microsoft has not, even though it is now an open-source company.

It's not clear yet what's wrong with these patches, but it appears that Microsoft's "prelude bug" means that many others are still being found.The Federal Reserve's policy of easing interest rates on banks and other financial institutions as a way to stimulate