Comment by nicce
2 months ago
I believe you know well that bankrupt is the worst case. Many business functions can be so critical that 24h disturbance is enough to cause high financial damages or even loss of life. A bug in the car's brakes that prevents their usage is also denial of service.
Or 24h disturbance. Or indeed taking the entire system down at all.
And no one is talking about safety-critical systems. You are moving the goalposts. Does a gas pedal use a markdown or XML parser? No.
The point was about the importance of availability.
> Does a gas pedal use a markdown or XML parser? No.
Cars in general use, extensively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOSAR
Great, then we have someone with both resources and an incentive to write and maintain an XML parser with strict availability guarantees.
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AUTOSAR xml-s are compile-time/integration time toolchain metadata mostly in my memory.
Yet this is off topic for the libxml funding/bug debate.
For embedded mission critical C libxml is surely unsuitable, just like 99.99% of the open source third party code. Also unneeded. If crashes the app on the developer machine or in the build pipeline if it runs out of memory? Who cares (from a safety point of view)? That has nothing to do with availability of safety critical systems in the car.