Re: Reliability of RPC services

[Tom Bachmann]

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Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Say you do the equivalent to "kill -9" in a system that does not have
> this guarantee.  Then _every_ process that is currently in an
> invocation to the killed program will be stuck indefinitely.  It seems
> to me that you need _something_ in the system to compensate for that.
> Otherwise you rely on all programs (that you potentially call) to be
> always terminable in a friendly manner, ie with SIGTERM.  That seems
> to be optimistic, given that there easily can be systematic and
> probabilistic failures causing SIGTERM to not work anymore.
> 

sounds reasonable.
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