I have this weird gut feeling that it's going to be one of those "this was introduced in 2010 commit and has been in every build since"

Edit: I have no knowledge of what this is FYI.

Skimming through the code (particularly from past issues and PRs) highlights a number of things that look sketchy to me at first glance (in a coding practices way, not in a malicious way) - my gut feeling is that someone smarter than me going through much of this with a fine-toothed-comb would likely find something exploitable.

Rewrite it in Rust. /s

> my gut feeling is that someone smarter than me going through much of this with a fine-toothed-comb

Seems that's already started: https://github.com/Atoptool/atop/issues/330