On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:20:53AM +1000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
>At 12:59 PM 9/28/99 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:11:31AM +1000, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>> Good software shouldn't panic.
>>I wish _I_ could convince some people of this :-(.
>
>It can be difficult to consider what a user can do and tends to bloat the
>code a bit. Frustrates my instructors, since it very much a habit when I
>script and carried over to C. 8-)
I was thinking of some `production' code (written by a sister company)
that I used to provide customer support for. It would regularly core
dump (but was automatically restarted). After a few years they did
manage to fix the core dump, but that exposed a memory leak which they
never did manage to fix (fairly embarrasing in a supposedly
permanently running process).
>Speaking of, why is (would) root filesystem support necessary for non
>root/swap automagical recovery.
I gather that root support is the most-asked-for feature in Vinum (when
I asked Greg about it some weeks ago, I got about as far as `when will
Vinum' before he answered me). As long as recovery works, making it
nicer to use is (should be) a lower priority.
Peter
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