Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Personally, as a programmer myself, I much prefer to work on a system that > gives up consistently when I do something wrong. That's what segmentation > faults are all about. It would be _easy_ to tell the kernel "don't kill > tasks if they write to random memory locations." That's what DOS and Win16 > did -- and you end up with random memory corruption that's virtually > impossible to debug.
It *is* easy to tell the kernel, "don't kill this task if it writes to random memory locations". -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
