Is it? I'd say "crashing cleanly" is oxymoronic; "crashing" strongly implies a failure of the process to clean up after itself after doing so. Any sort of cra

Is it? I'd say "crashing cleanly" is oxymoronic; "crashing" strongly implies a failure of the process to clean up after itself after doing so. Any sort of crash can wreak havoc on whatever non-atomic operations were in-flight.