At least with the missile case, someone _did the analysis and knows exactly what's wrong_ before deciding the "solution" was letting the resources leak. That's fine.
What always bothers me, is when (note, I'm not saying this is the case for the grandparent comment, but it's implied) people don't understand what exactly is broken, but just reboot every so often to fix things. :0
For a lot of bugs, there's often the component you see (like the obvious resource leak) combined with subtle problems you don't see (data corruption, perhaps?) and you won't really know until the problem is tracked down.
What always bothers me, is when (note, I'm not saying this is the case for the grandparent comment, but it's implied) people don't understand what exactly is broken, but just reboot every so often to fix things. :0
For a lot of bugs, there's often the component you see (like the obvious resource leak) combined with subtle problems you don't see (data corruption, perhaps?) and you won't really know until the problem is tracked down.