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by ianand 403 days ago
The site’s domain name is the best use of a .fail tld ever.
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jagged-chisel 403 days ago
OT from TFA, so high jacking your thread …

I don’t recall if there was ever a difference between “abort” and “fail.” I could choose to abort the operation, or tell it … to fail? That this is a failure?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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bombcar 403 days ago
Take reading a file from disk.

Abort would cancel the entire file read.

Retry would attempt that sector again.

Fail would fail that sector, but the program might decide to keep trying to read the rest of the file.

In practice abort and fail were often the same.

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jagged-chisel 402 days ago
Makes sense. Maybe I ran across a proper use a time or two back then and just don’t remember. But the two being the same was the overwhelming experience.
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