From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: exception safety / RAII ?
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:32:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050308213236.GC1877@first.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503071330.49084.jon@jdh30.plus.com>
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:30:48PM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 01:32, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > In most cases you probably won't care when a file is closed after writing
> > > to it, so you can just rely on the garbage collector.
> >
> > Very bad practice in (e.g.) an NFS world where the filesystem makes no
> > guarantee about file writes until you actually close the file.
>
> Yes, this may go wrong under certain circumstances (it is not a guarantee) but
> I very rarely have problems with this.
Building reliable programs on unreliable assumptions
will definitely yield to problems.
Not during development, not during tests, but when the software
finally is used. (Murphey....)
So, buying that piece of code.... and your customers will wish
they better had bought the product from the other company...
Ciao,
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-05 18:16 Michael Benfield
2005-03-05 18:44 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2005-03-07 0:03 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-07 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-07 2:48 ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2005-03-07 13:30 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-07 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-07 17:10 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-03-08 13:07 ` Damien Doligez
2005-03-08 21:56 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-09 13:34 ` Damien Doligez
2005-03-09 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-09 16:19 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-03-09 22:45 ` [Caml-list] Re: exception safety / RAII Oliver Bandel
2005-03-09 23:42 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-03-10 14:33 ` exception safety / RAII ? Stefan Monnier
2005-03-10 16:52 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-03-11 14:46 ` Michael Walter
2005-03-12 22:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-07 15:21 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Walter
[not found] ` <200503071729.20117.jon@jdh30.plus.com>
2005-03-07 18:47 ` Michael Walter
2005-03-08 1:10 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-08 22:19 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-03-08 22:53 ` Daniel Yokomizo
2005-03-09 1:21 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-03-09 13:21 ` Damien Doligez
2005-03-08 11:33 ` [Caml-list] " Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-03-08 12:32 ` Richard Jones
2005-03-08 14:17 ` Michael Walter
2005-03-08 18:28 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-08 21:34 ` Damien Doligez
2005-03-09 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-09 22:30 ` [Caml-list] " Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-10 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-08 21:32 ` Oliver Bandel [this message]
2005-03-07 3:31 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Walter
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