Christopher Smith wrote:
Something as simple as "out of memory" causes better than 99% of all
programs to die with horrible corruption. There is no reason for that
other than the fact that no one takes the time to code it.
Here I have to disagree with. For a whole host of programs, running out
of memory is an indication that something is seriously wrong.
Only *if you're the one causing the out of memory*.
Otherwise, this is a *bug*. Why don't systems request enough memory up
front to shut down gracefully? Because programming that is hard and
nobody cares.
If I soak up all the RAM, half my daemons will croak in various states
of corruption instead of shut down cleanly.
This tells me that, in spite of whining, nobody really cares about
software quality.
-a
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