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There is zero new information in this article that has not been known since the early days of what became Unix. It seems to me that a reasonable summary of the
by ezekiel68 4y ago
There is zero new information in this article that has not been known since the early days of what became Unix. It seems to me that a reasonable summary of the content might be: "It is difficult to keep track of important things properly and no one should be asked to do it."
- eru 4y agoComputers should help us keep track of things.
- ezekiel68 4y agoAnd sure enough, they do. When I fork() a process, I get a return code which may be a child pid. I can hold it as a variable, put it in a hashmap, save it to a file, output it to a logging stream, kill it, or send a signal to it. The API ain't perfect but the world has not come crashing down upon us due to this in the past half-century as far as I have seen.
- eru 4y agoAren't you proving too much here? The argument you bring here can also be advanced in favour of Windows 95 running stable enough, can't it?