Siguza

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar ok but these guarantees are routinely broken by shitty implementations and then either the spec has to be retroactively loosened, or everyone just looks away and pretends those non-compliant implementations don't exist (but then they are things like Windows or glibc).

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Saagar Jha

(replying to Siguza)
@siguza Yes but it is important that you know who to blame in those scenarios

Siguza

(replying to Siguza)

@saagar if the guarantees are too complicated for implementers to get right, then there truly are no guarantees.

Saagar Jha

(replying to Siguza)
@siguza Call them whatever you want there is still value to having these