From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f6ee8ca03c176d76 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-29 10:03:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!torn!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D6E5181.8090208@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: stupid question: how can I finish a program? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:53:21 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1030639958 198.96.47.195 (Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:52:38 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:52:38 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28563 Date: 2002-08-29T12:53:21-04:00 List-Id: Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote: > Robert A Duff wrote: >>Dmitry A.Kazakov writes: >>>Robert A Duff wrote: >>>>Dmitry A.Kazakov writes: ... > It is true, but I am afraid that future OS's will be even less reliable in > that respect than current ones. Consider an OO OS with no files, no > external memory, but only persistent objects allocated remotely etc. It > could be hard to tie processes such objects. I don't think that this is much different from various files on different NFS mounts from being closed prematurely, or with botched updates. The technical management may vary, but the problem already exists today. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg