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+// Example broken demonstrates how the environment will forcibly kill the
+// program if an actor cannot shut down.
+package main
+
+import "os"
+import "log"
+import "context"
+import "git.tebibyte.media/sashakoshka/camfish"
+
+func main() {
+	camfish.Run("broken",
+		"Example broken demonstrates how the environment will " +
+		"forcibly kill the program if an actor cannot shut down",
+		new(broken))
+}
+
+// broken is an incorrectly implemented actor that cannot shut down.
+type broken struct { }
+var _ camfish.Runnable = new(broken)
+func (this *broken) Type() string { return "broken" }
+
+func (this *broken) Run(ctx context.Context) error {
+	log.Println("(i) [broken] wait for approximately 8 minutes")
+	log.Printf("(i) [broken] if impatient, run: kill -9 %d", os.Getpid())
+	<- (chan struct { })(nil)
+	return ctx.Err() // unreachable, of course
+}