Re: Bad Jenkins Slave?

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 02:02:07PM +0000, Wols Lists wrote:

> Mmmm ... so Unix that lets you delete files under a running process,
> causing a crash, is any better?

No, it doesn't. It just lets you remove one of the file's names (it
often has only one). If a running process has a file opened, that file
is not deleted, and will be automatically deleted when the process
closes it (if it has no name anymore).

Now, if a process tries to open a file under a particular name and
crashes if it doesn't find it, then yes, it "lets you delete a file
causing a crash", but by the same account so does Windows: if the file
is not opened in any program, Windows will let you delete it, causing
a crash when the process tries to open it, but does not find it.

Anyway, I don't think that the system can successfully keep the user
from doing anything that leads to an application crash, while
allowing the user to do useful stuff, and be in control of his/her
machine.

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Lionel