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A distributed worker launcher
https://wlandau.github.io/crew/
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Ominous warning in documentation #116

Closed Kodiologist closed 1 year ago

Kodiologist commented 1 year ago

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Quoth https://wlandau.github.io/crew/:

The crew package has unavoidable risk. It is your responsibility as the user to safely use crew. Please read the final clause of the software license.

The clause in question is just the usual no-warranty clause in free-software licenses. No further explanation of the "unavoidable risk" or safety issue is provided. I think this is a copypaste that got separated from its original context in 8b0d3c03b5e7a7bc7166105a9ee1b5d8caf2618b, which was a warning about runaway worker processes.

wlandau commented 1 year ago

The sections just below that paragraph describe specific known risks, from network security to zombie processes. Hopefully the change in https://github.com/wlandau/crew/commit/6c27d1161685b0e195f67cbe53ae32d4984b76db makes this clearer.

Kodiologist commented 1 year ago

Ah, that makes sense, thanks. The font-size change on my browser for the different headers is very subtle, and it wasn't clear that the next header was a subsection of "Risks".