CodeSOD: The Wrong Sacrifice

Folks, you need to choose a different sacrificial animal for your multithreading issues. Thanks to this comment Edward found in a stubborn bit of Java code, we now know the programming gods won't take our goats.

public static boolean doSomeOSStuff() { // Forgive me father for I have sinned - with the bag of crap written in the lines below. // When running multiple threads (~500) concurrently, the damn OS commands fail at a 1% rate for no apparent reason. // There is no error message, or any indication of failure, they just don't happen and come bite you in the ass. // After much frustration, I decided to try 3 things: // 1. sacrifice a goat. - did not go as planned. // 2. semaphoring this shit. did not change anything... // 3. after each failed command, I will try and verify if it succeeded or not. If not I'll try it 4 more times. // I am now going home to take a hot shower, and cry laying on the shower floor. and /or sacrifice a few more goats. // // ... // s, . .s // ss, . .. .ss // 'SsSs, .. . .sSsS' // sSs'sSs, . . .sSs'sSs // sSs 'sSs, ... .sSs' sSs // sS, 'sSs, .sSs' .Ss // 'Ss 'sSs, .sSs' sS' // ... sSs ' .sSs' sSs ... // . sSs .sSs' .., sSs . // . .. sS, .sSs' . 'sSs, .Ss . .. // .. . 'Ss .Ss' . 'sSs. '' .. . // . . sSs ' . 'sSs, . . // ... .sS.'sSs . .. 'sSs, ... // .sSs' sS, ..... .Ss 'sSs, // .sSs' 'Ss . sS' 'sSs, // .sSs' sSs . sSs 'sSs, // .sSs'____________________________ sSs ______________'sSs, // .sSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS'.Ss SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs, // ... sS' // sSs sSs // sSs sSs // sS, .Ss // 'Ss sS' // sSs sSs // sSsSs // sSs // s // snipped OS manipulation code with several cases of aforementioned ritual}

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