[tor-relays] interesting tor platform string or tor bug?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 08:14:45PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> > Could this be a bug in Atlas?
> 
> Not a bug in atlas -- I see an actual descriptor in moria1's cache from
> inaTor which has these funny symbols in its platform string.

Actually, I should probably say that there are *other* descriptors
from inaTor, which say
"""
platform Tor 0.2.7.6 on Windows 8
"""
i.e. a totally normal platform string.

So it looks like a Tor bug -- and a memory corruption one at that.

--Roger