Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)

Re:Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) by jemfinch on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @08:46PM (#8994863)

I assume "flag" in this context means something akin to a command-line flag.

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Re:Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) by socceroos on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @08:52PM (#8994884)

I assumed it was a single bit in a string of them that describes a message.

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Re:Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) by MattHeard on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @09:32PM (#8994989)

You're correct. Single bits representing boolean values are often called "flags".

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Re:Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) by matteotom on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @08:54PM (#8994891)

Except it's probably a byte or less.

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Re:Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) by solarmist on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @09:42PM (#8995032)

For highly efficient messages I'll bet they did bit packing, so it was probably only a single bit, which is why they'd want to reuse it rather than completely change the message format.

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