> Time is a very good indicator of failure.
> If things did not time out the whole internet would be deadlocked in a day.
Okay, let's say the timeout was one hour. If i send you a craftily-disguised
endless loop, and you run it for one hour, you can say with some certainly
that it's an endless loop, right? Sound good so far ... you kill the
process, and free up CPU cycles for other, useful processes.
But what is a useful process?
Your original example was to run a web server over this. So a nice innocent
person sends you a web server to run. Now, what happens after an hour? Your
computer says, "Gee, this process has been running for an hour; it must be
an endless loop; let's kill it."
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Mike Schiraldi
Verisign Applied Research
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