On 19 August 2013 17:08, Marc Lehmann <[email protected]> wrote: > As a concrete and comparable example, imagine you corrupt half of your > hard disk, and then expect all the remaining data to be somehow preserved > or accessible by normal means. That expectation assumes that corrupting > data has no effect on other data that hasn't been corrupted, which > generally isn't the case.
I don't see this as a comparable example. This would be equivalent with "randomly corrupting the RAM and then expecting the environment to be preserved", which is clearly an invalid assumption. But in our case we're not talking about raw data. The environment has, after all, a relatively structured form, an array of entries. I don't see why an error in one entry should propagate into every other. If you corrupt one inode in the filesystem, the large majority of the rest still remains intact right? _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
