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Article #288Re: Safe coding practices
From: Garrett Wollman
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 1991 02:13
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 1991 02:13
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In article <1074@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes: >RIGHT! Don't assume anything that *can* fail will *not* fail in your >particular case. (And don't apply "logic" - there may be reasons you can't >see right now because they are outside the range of your experiences.) >-- >Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83 This reminds me of the origin of the Andrew Message System. CMU developed AMS chiefly because, with AFS (then the Andrew File System and before that VICE), it is now possible for close() to *fail*. Since most programmers (including the ones responsible for the standard MUAs and MTAs on their target hosts) operated under the assumption that it is impossible for a close() to have a soft failure, they had to develop a message system that was reliable in instances where close() *could* fail. -GAWollman Garrett A. Wollman - wollman@emily.uvm.edu Disclaimer: I'm not even sure this represents *my* opinion, never mind UVM's, EMBA's, EMBA-CF's, or indeed anyone else's.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bbn.com!nic!kira!emily!wollman From: wollman@emily.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Safe coding practices Message-ID: <1991Feb3.021306.14640@uvm.edu> Date: 3 Feb 91 02:13:06 GMT References: <22311:Jan2502:34:1191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <14970@smoke.brl <1074@mwtech.UUCP> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont - EMBA Computing Facility Lines: 22 Raymond-Protection: enabled