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Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 08:44:36 PST
From: "Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Netscape shutdown

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In <391ED349.62FF@peterskye.com>, on 05/14/00
at 08:25 AM, Peter Skye said:

>Is that a Netscape problem or a kernel problem?

Both.

Applications are supposed to be written carefully, so that a trap inside
the exit list handler is impossible, unless there's a catastophic failure
of some sort (i.e. hardware). Reality shows that many implementors do not
spend quite enough time validating their exit handlers.

The kernel design is at fault because it provides not way out when the
situation occurs. Unix and its flavors, for example, does not suffur from
this defect. WSeb and WP4/FP13 contain a new process killer API. Time
will tell if this addresses the design defect.

Steven

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