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Or 24h disturbance. Or indeed taking the entire system down at all. And no one is talking about safety-critical systems. You are moving the goalposts. Does a g
by arp242 1y ago
Or 24h disturbance. Or indeed taking the entire system down at all.
And no one is talking about safety-critical systems. You are moving the goalposts. Does a gas pedal use a markdown or XML parser? No.
- nicce 1y agoThe point was about the importance of availability. > Does a gas pedal use a markdown or XML parser? No. Cars in general use, extensively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOSAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOSAR
- int_19h 1y agoGreat, then we have someone with both resources and an incentive to write and maintain an XML parser with strict availability guarantees.
- fodkodrasz 1y agoAutomotive companies pay big buck to vendors who supply certified tools/libraries, because getting stuff certified is lot of work/time. This also means that those stuff are often outdated, and a pain to work with, yet their vendors are not expected to function as charities, as often expected by FLOSS authors, esp. when releasing their code under BSD/MIT licenses and then getting eaten by the sharks.
- fodkodrasz 1y agoAUTOSAR xml-s are compile-time/integration time toolchain metadata mostly in my memory. Yet this is off topic for the libxml funding/bug debate. For embedded mission critical C libxml is surely unsuitable, just like 99.99% of the open source third party code. Also unneeded. If crashes the app on the developer machine or in the build pipeline if it runs out of memory? Who cares (from a safety point of view)? That has nothing to do with availability of safety critical systems in the car.