My favorite pet bug (2004): Yum mishandles Ctrl-C
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Aug 31 17:30:06 UTC 2006
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:23:13PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> >>>cancelling during the transaction is a bad, bad idea.
> >>Why is it called a transaction, then? There's a bit of false advertising
> >>there...
> >Only because you're making some assumptions about what "transaction" means
> >based on its special-purpose use in a not-necessarily-related field.
> Computer science?
transaction != atomic transaction.
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