From: Laurent Bercot <ska-dietlibc@skarnet.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: setenv if value=NULL, what say standard? Bug?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:47:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5538CDC8.30600@skarnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACCP0Gqd60JLtbD=iy1a2Vbcry87NgyzdEJ+E=Are3nzh4Vjbw@mail.gmail.com>
On 23/04/2015 11:52, Raphael Cohn wrote:
> The worst outage of my
> career was a terracotta cluster that had suffered from a split brain.
> Restarting it naively caused it to _delete_ the only remaining good
> state. Is this your 'clean state' caveat above?
Yes it is. I think scripts that start complex services should always
make sure to check the state first. Ideally, a run script (as we name
them in the process supervision world) should be idempotent in all cases.
I realize it's not always easy to achieve, but I believe it is the goal
to aim for.
--
Laurent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-23 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-23 0:08 Jean-Marc Pigeon
2015-04-23 0:35 ` Laurent Bercot
2015-04-23 1:26 ` Jean-Marc Pigeon
2015-04-23 2:15 ` Rich Felker
2015-04-23 4:24 ` Jean-Marc Pigeon
2015-04-23 5:08 ` Raphael Cohn
2015-04-23 12:29 ` Jean-Marc Pigeon
2015-04-23 9:23 ` Laurent Bercot
2015-04-23 9:52 ` Raphael Cohn
2015-04-23 10:47 ` Laurent Bercot [this message]
2015-04-23 10:10 ` Rich Felker
2015-04-23 12:58 ` Jean-Marc Pigeon
2015-04-23 13:22 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-04-23 13:58 ` Jean-Marc Pigeon
2015-04-23 14:26 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-04-23 8:05 ` Jens Gustedt
2015-04-23 9:55 ` Rich Felker
2015-04-24 4:11 ` Isaac Dunham
2015-04-23 5:52 ` Isaac Dunham
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