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It is likely that fix would break somebody else's code which unwittingly depends on the bug. Then, burden of educating the users would fall on maintainers. Who,
by rini17 6y ago
It is likely that fix would break somebody else's code which unwittingly depends on the bug. Then, burden of educating the users would fall on maintainers. Who, most likely, aren't having any of that. (Author even linked a article about this.)
- true_religion 6y agoHow could you depend on a race condition bug?
- rini17 6y agoIt's not so hard to imagine a scenario where system happens to depend on both data concurrently written into a config file by 2 processes. If the file is properly written and renamed then data from one process gets lost, and/or if there is locking, one process will suddenly stall.