I have long said that you know it's time to ship when you are working the system hard enough to find long-standing bugs: you know that you've hit bedrock, in a sense.
And that is the inference I choose to draw from this 7-year-old DTrace bug that I hit this weekend that absolutely had me questioning my own sanity:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/15789
Bryan Cantrill /
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2023-07-10 01:46:10
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