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by gerbilly 2722 days ago
> How did 'skilled' programmers recover when a daemon crashed in Sys5 init-based systems?

Maybe the daemons didn't crash so often as now?

I never understood this new approach, which consists of writing a server process in a half assed way so that it crashes frequently, then solving that by putting a restarter service in front of it, done!