I’ve always preferred the term Heisenbug, as the uncertainty principle is closer than the Higgs field. Especially when you get the super annoying ones that never seem to appear while you’re looking at it.
I thought the same thing, but if you click through to the linked wikipedia page there is a distinction: a heisenbug is a bug that you've already identified but that you can't reproduce under test conditions a higgs bugson is a bug that is theorised to exist but is hard to reproduce in *any* environment
In this case it's not a heisenbug because trying to observe the bug doesn't affect whether it happens or not. It's dubious whether it counts as a higgs bugson because it had actually been seen in production, it was just rare
Benabik@reddit
I’ve always preferred the term Heisenbug, as the uncertainty principle is closer than the Higgs field. Especially when you get the super annoying ones that never seem to appear while you’re looking at it.
netherlandsftw@reddit
Schrbügdinger
moderatorrater@reddit
Yeah, Higgs-bugson is a terrible name and people who use it should be ashamed.
Bergasms@reddit
The only one worse than the Heisenbug is the CAB, or "Client Activated Bug" which only manifests when you are demonstrating to the client
Worth_Trust_3825@reddit
Terrible title. It's heisenbug.
Nicksaurus@reddit
I thought the same thing, but if you click through to the linked wikipedia page there is a distinction:
a heisenbug is a bug that you've already identified but that you can't reproduce under test conditions
a higgs bugson is a bug that is theorised to exist but is hard to reproduce in *any* environment
In this case it's not a heisenbug because trying to observe the bug doesn't affect whether it happens or not. It's dubious whether it counts as a higgs bugson because it had actually been seen in production, it was just rare
le_birb@reddit
Bugtrino?
gimpwiz@reddit
Trillions of them per second, but virtually all just pass right through your program without affecting it.
DeliciousIncident@reddit
You mean a heisenbug? Higgs-bugson makes no sense.
awfulentrepreneur@reddit
Great writeup!
pftbest@reddit
Great find, thanks for the fix
cosmic-parsley@reddit
That’s an insane amount of work to chase this bug down, nice writeup.
I hadn’t heard of https://github.com/cberner/fuser before but it looks interesting. Maybe I’ll have to come up with a reason to write a file system.