Coincidentally, today I noticed a surprisingly high number of file accesses from Tenable's Nessus software, caused by it reading a megabyte-sized config file on

Coincidentally, today I noticed a surprisingly high number of file accesses from Tenable's Nessus software, caused by it reading a megabyte-sized config file one character at a time without buffering, each going through Win32's ReadFile. It seems that negligence is not in short supply.