> "Defensive code" might mean "do not start a service if you can not > log to the specified logfile" as well. So: "depends"
Defensive code always means: check for errors, take action as needed (e.g. cleanup), and message the caller/user/system. The let-it-explode philosophy would work only if every failure were clean. > Right - all changes during use of the unionfs overlay were written > to tmpfs instead of /var/log on harddisk. Cute, nor? :) Cute - and more complex than our workaround. But thanks for the tip! Nice to know. M _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
