What Is the Byzantine Generals Problem in Distributed Systems? (newsletter.scalablethread.com) 20 points by thunderbong 1y ago ↗ HN
[–] bryanrasmussen 1y ago ↗ Also consider Satan comes to Dinner in E http://erights.org/e/satan/index.html
[–] remram 1y ago ↗ This is a terrible overview of the problem. If general 3 knows it is general 2 saying that general 1 wants to retreat, they can just ignore it. There is no problem.(or general c, b, a respectively, since TFA can't keep their numbering straight)The wikipedia page has a much better overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault#Definition
[–] erinaceousjones 1y ago ↗ Posted 4 hours ago, which would have been about 1530 Brussels time... OP at FOSDEM? :-) https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4941-was-...(Not TFA, which was published Jan 31 - OP, who posted it this afternoon shortly after a talk which included the Byzantine Generals problem)
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The wikipedia page has a much better overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault#Definition
(Not TFA, which was published Jan 31 - OP, who posted it this afternoon shortly after a talk which included the Byzantine Generals problem)