The Are No Silver Bullets: Which Error Handling Style to Pick For a Given Configuration of Constraints?

Kent Beck in his Patterns Enhance Craft Step 3: A Few Good Solutions highlights an important fact about software development: We encounter repeating configurations of forces/constraints that have only a handful of “solution families” and the optimal solution(s) depend on the relative weights of these constraints. For example when deciding what error handling style we

Fix Shell Script Run via SSH Hanging (Jenkins)

There is an important difference between running a script manually (ssh machine; machine$ ./script.sh) and running it via ssh (ssh machine < script.sh): in the letter case the connection will not close when the script finishes but will stay open until stdout/stderr are closed or a timeout occurs. In Jenkins it will therefore seem as if