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Do you think that, in case of the problem from this article, Perl devs should have had a test checking if their update doesn't break someone's Emacs when they try to use it in client-server mode, launching one via a Perl script and other via some other means, on a Linux with "capabilities" feature?

This story wasn't about trivial day-to-day developer bugs, but what kind of problems happen in really complex systems.




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