Re: Reliability of RPC services

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:56 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> If user interaction is not admitted to the problem, then I agree that
> it seems that upper bounds on wall clock time are indispensable.
> However, I would not rush to this solution...

I agree completely. Where the user can directly solve the problem this
is better than a watchdog. The watchdog is appropriate where (a) no user
is available or (b) we may want to point out to the user that a problem
exists.

shap