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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaOS2.0 Software Failure requesters
Message-ID: <260@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 07:56:21 GMT
References: <23480@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <23480@snow-white.udel.EDU> BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
> 
>   I have a complaint about a part of the Amiga's OS which remains, to this
>day, nearly unchanged from the earliest releases of the Amiga's OS.  I am
>talking about thw 'Software Failure -- Task Held' requesters.  Apparently, way
> [...]
>   I was hoping that, with AmigaOS 2.0, this requester would be replaced with
>something useful.  I was hoping that a new requester would offer several
>options for dealing with the errant task, other than either just letting the
>requester sit there or rebooting.  Some options I was hoping for (and which
>would not have been too hard to write) were 'Lock Task' (to lock the task and
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (oh boy......)
>it's requester, removing the requester); 'Cancel Task' (allow the OS to
>attempt to cancel the task and free up is resources); and 'Reboot' (to reboot,
>without visiting the GURU first).

I agree that the Retry option of this requester is of no visible use for
me. But the requester *IS* useful. It says clearly that one (of several)
tasks got corrupted, the rest of them still active. And it gives you the
wise advice to close all your disk activities and then to reboot. If *does
not boot immediately*, so you are able to save the rest of your work.
And you *should* follow this advice, because this wild task may have
corrupted some vital informations for those other tasks or the OS which
maybe is not visible in the moment.
The other features you would like to see, are at this stage simply
impossible. The corrupted task is already halted (what you name 'Lock
Task'). But cancelling or removing it is impossible because the Amiga OS
doesn't know which resources were occupied by this very task (see the
discussions about resource tracking in other threads). And the 'Reboot'
option is not multitasking friendly, as I explained above.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel      //     E-Mail to 
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