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buttercraft
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How we centralized and structured error handling i...
> If you don't know what the state of your app is, how do you prevent data corruption or logical errors in further execution?
Even worse, you might be in an unknown state because someone is trying to exploit a vulnerability.
jayd16
11 months ago
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If you crash then you've handed them a denial of service vulnerability.
buttercraft
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That's an issue handled higher up the stack with process isolation etc. It's still not ok to continue running a process that is in an unknown state.
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Even worse, you might be in an unknown state because someone is trying to exploit a vulnerability.