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: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!tiscali!transit1.news.tiscali.nl!dreader2.news.tiscali.nl!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada BIND was: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <5gLzc.30020$mz.20711@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> From: Ludovic Brenta Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:11:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87d63zqsok.fsf@insalien.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uiXRBh6YbrSKyc1xjQmNz1TrR+Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tiscali bv NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jun 2004 20:10:58 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.237.103 X-Trace: 1087409458 dreader2.news.tiscali.nl 41748 83.134.237.103:35112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1582 Date: 2004-06-16T20:10:58+02:00 List-Id: writes: >>> in a general-purpose operating system. If a buggy program enters an >>> infinite loop you want to be able to kill it. >> >>It's not unknown for this to happen when a buggy X Windows program grabs >>the server and never lets go, and that's on a proper multitasking system. > Also Windows 2000. Its idea of "pre-emptive" is that the paper clip > can flash a new image once every 30 seconds or so, and in 5 or 10 minutes > you can get enough into Task Manager to tell it to kill the errant process. In my experience, the paper clip is quite preemptive by itself. At seemingly random intervals, it will forcibly stop the user in the middle of whatever they were doing :) -- Ludovic Brenta.