Re: [Monotone-devel] Error handling via automate

[Jon Bright]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> (In fact 'automate stdio' makes me quite nervous for this reason
> already.  I would feel better if part of its contract was that it
> would exit after an error, and it was the client's responsibility to
> restart it.)

Speaking as someone who's writing something to use automate, I wouldn't 
have a problem with this strategy.  automate stdio optimises for 
repeated strings of commands.  Restarting the process isn't optimal, but 
it doesn't seem like it's a huge cost in the case of an error.

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