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A post telling people they aren't supposed to run red lights would also be strange, since that is well known. Are you saying that people who don't check fork fo
by dooglius 7y ago
A post telling people they aren't supposed to run red lights would also be strange, since that is well known. Are you saying that people who don't check fork for errors are doing so knowingly? That is not the impression I got from the post.
- dubcanada 7y agoIf you write code implementing a unix function (fork, sleep, blah, blah) you should know how the underlying function works and implement it properly and with correct error checking.
- im3w1l 7y agoI think you mean "calling"? Anyway this advice is very clearly not being followed. It's not uncommon that correct error handling is impossible. Because of "specification bugs" interacting edge cases can cause undetectable failures. And those problems have been this way for decades. The world you wish for doesn't exist. Not saying it shouldn't.
- jolmg 7y agoYet, there are commercials and other publications about not texting/drinking and driving.