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What Is the Byzantine Generals Problem in Distributed Systems?

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• bryanrasmussen 2y ago
  Also consider Satan comes to Dinner in E http://erights.org/e/satan/index.html http://erights.org/e/satan/index.html
• remram 2y ago
  This is a terrible overview of the problem. If general 3 knows it is general 2 saying that general 1 wants to retreat, they can just ignore it. There is no problem. (or general c, b, a respectively, since TFA can't keep their numbering straight) The wikipedia page has a much better overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault#Definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault#Definition
• erinaceousjones 2y ago
  Posted 4 hours ago, which would have been about 1530 Brussels time... OP at FOSDEM? :-) https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4941-was-leslie-lamport-right-/ https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4941-was-... (Not TFA, which was published Jan 31 - OP, who posted it this afternoon shortly after a talk which included the Byzantine Generals problem)