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Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten by dist1ll on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:08PM (#31065817)
> that made the obvious approach untenable

What's the obvious approach? You do have to dig into the source of memcached and understand some internals. With good use of grep and vim it can be done quite quickly, but I wouldn't call it obvious.

Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten by notreallyserio on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:53AM (#31070587)
The obvious approach would be to copy the code for an existing function, I think.