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I would much rather the cash machine crashes than starts communicating with the bank seeded by 00*inf bytes of random. Besides, what exactly do you expect to d
by heavenlyblue 8y ago
I would much rather the cash machine crashes than starts communicating with the bank seeded by 00*inf bytes of random.
Besides, what exactly do you expect to do with the library in an "exceptional condition"? Do I now need to check the output of every single function for some non-local effects they have on each other?
- blub 8y agoHow can the library know that the cash machine will communicate with the bank, or that there even is a cash machine? The library should just tell the program that it failed go perform its task, not guess at what its parent program could, should or would do. Note that the discussion started from "abort". Maybe the authors meant something else by abort, but in a system programming context it means calling abort and terminating the program's execution immediately. If they just meant it as a synonym for panic, we're just having a nice discussion here.