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: 103376,8893269a4640c798 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-23 20:36:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!wn12feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: terminate applications References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <8vITa.131261$ye4.92300@sccrnsc01> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.13.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1059017796 12.234.13.56 (Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:36:36 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:36:36 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:36:36 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40745 Date: 2003-07-24T03:36:36+00:00 List-Id: > But that's not really under your control. In Windows or UNIX, there are > ways to immediately kill a program from the outside, regardless of what > the program would prefer. And these services are available to a program > that wishes to invoke them, even on itself. So you don't gain anything Of course you do. You make it less convenient for the fast acting, slow thinking, programmer to shoot himself in the foot, at the cost of minor inconvenience on those less common occasions when system abort is actually necessary. It must be a curious world, where all editors allow arbitrary length lines, rocket controls once made either plug in and work in all future kinds of space transport or specify in advance which ones won't work, and there's no difference between leading into or leading away from temptation.