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Thinking I could clean up my files in a SIGINT handler (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by bleistift2@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Crash-only software. To be resilient you need some kind of ACID anyway which means that you can let go of your shutdown procedure and just send yourself SIGKILL instead.