Re: My favorite pet bug (2004): Yum mishandles Ctrl-C

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:23:13PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> >>>cancelling during the transaction is a bad, bad idea.
> >>Why is it called a transaction, then?  There's a bit of false advertising 
> >>there...
> >Only because you're making some assumptions about what "transaction" means
> >based on its special-purpose use in a not-necessarily-related field.
> Computer science?

transaction != atomic transaction. 

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