txr [was Re: Undefined in LISP

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* Kaz Kylheku <20250323233948.580@kylheku.com> :
Wrote on Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:50:16 -0000 (UTC):
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|In complex operating systems that support being put into unattended
|production uses, we don't want anything to stop.
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|At most, only the lowest level kernel may have a "panic" function that
|locks up in a loop. But even that is a behavior we typically don't want
|unless we are debugging. If the system is to remain available in spite
|of the crash, it has to reboot on panic.
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|The software locking up is so bad that have hardware defenses against
|it: hardware watchdogs.
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|TXR Programming Language: http://nongnu.org/txr
|Cygnal: Cygwin Native Application Library: http://kylheku.com/cygnal
|Mastodon: @Kazinator@mstdn.ca

git clone on txr's cgit host seems to work now.  For a while I thought
if you tried to git-clone it the machine firewalled you and dropped
network packets after a few bytes were sent