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Favorite quote from the article - "Fail safe" is just the most basic of all basic engineering techniques. I shouldn't even have to say this out loud.
by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
Favorite quote from the article - "Fail safe" is just the most basic of all basic engineering techniques. I shouldn't even have to say this out loud.
- posix_me_less 6y agoAlso "Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?" -- Ellen Ripley
- josefx 6y agoWorst part is "They need signal handlers. " Nothing guarantees that the signal handlers are run, the program may not be in a sane state when it is about to crash from a bug, made worse that it is already hard to write a signal handler correctly without running into any of its API limitations. Basically: signal handlers are not a solution to the problem. If that state is handled by systemd then it needs a way to reset it once the program setting it terminates. If systemd does not have the functionality for that then people are using the wrong tool for the job.