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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm” by bjourne on Thursday November 23, 2017 @07:34AM (#15764607)
It's good for uptime, but not good for correctness. The main problem is that it is hard to differentiate expected from unexpected crashes. Something like a missing pattern match can lead to a crash and it is very hard to know if the programmer "intended" for a crash to occur in that case or if the missing pattern is a bug.

You can have processes that reboot once every few minutes running for years because people didn't realize they were bugged.

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