Re: Hot Standby on git

Mark Mielke escribió:

> Most real life code gets a little more complicated. For example,
> what if we want to simulate a network failure or "out of disk space"
> condition? What if we want to test out what happens when the Y2038
> date is reached? This requires either complex test case setup that
> is difficult to run reproducibly, or another approach - "mock". It
> means doing things like overriding the write() method, and making it
> return successful N times, and then failing on the (N+1)th time with
> ENOSPC.

I remember a kernel simulator based on User-Mode Linux called UMLsim,
with which you could stuff like this.  It's dead at this point though,
and I don't know if there's any replacement.

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