[masklinn]

> If one process crashes, it won't affect others.

Unless they're linking or monitoring one another, an other important property of tolerant and distributed system.

[rdtsc]

But that is on purpose. Sometimes you do want that. In other words they are explicitly set up to monitor/link each other.

[masklinn]

> But that is on purpose.

Indeed, but I was pointing it out because it's important to be able to do it.