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Yeah ... Just reboot the machine and make me loose all my work, bro.

• charcircuit 4y ago
  This is why programs automatically saving their state is important.
  • elteto 4y ago
    No, this is why kernels prioritizing not crashing is important. Applications saving their work is a nice extra.
  • jmull 4y ago
    That's not a solution to OS instability. Reliably saving state in the face of sudden total failure is both very tricky and app-specific. Just saving state changes automatically won't do it -- partial writes of complex state are likely to be inconsistent without luck or careful design and QA controls (tests, testing, on-going controls to ensure nothing new operates or relies on anything outside the safe state-saving mechanism). It makes a lot more sense to put the effort into making the OS continue as well as it can, vs requiring every app to harden itself against sudden total failures.