The Old New Thing

Take it easy on the automatic retries

November 7, 2005 Nov 7, 2005 11/7/05

Raymond Chen

When I saw a discussion of how to simulate retry via try/catch, using as inspiration a Ruby function that retried a network operation three times before finally giving up, I felt the need to caution against automatic retry. Your natural inclination when faced with a failure that has a good chance of being caused by a transient condition is ...