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A Debugging Odyssey

Oxide and Friends

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Is There a New Failure Mode?

I just love it when a computer is doing work in my absence. It's satisfying to start the test week overnight and come back in the morning. And then, of course, when you find a new failure mode, that's disheartening. So along these lines, I found I really wished I had a tool that would basically run a command in a loop with no hub. Then standard out in standard error to well-known places with a node or something like that. Because a lot of these things were super error prone. What I ended up cobbling together is this no hub, run this thing, redirect this thing to this file,. And the detrace output to that file.

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