Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!noao!arizona!dave From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Why Amiga Gurus???? Message-ID: <770@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 2 Feb 91 05:26:38 GMT References: <1991Jan31.035105.14277@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <156@dogmelb.dog.oz.au> <16264@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 26 In article <16264@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes: |In article t22918@ursa (Matt Ranney ) writes: ||Why can't Amiga's handle failed tasks like the Unix OS can? I'd be perfectly ||happy to have my computer tell me that a task failed, and all it's allocated ||resources had been returned. | |Herein lies the problem. The OS does not keep track of allocated resources. |(sigh) However! the GOMF program (commercial, but old PD version on |a Fish disk) will attempt to recover resources from failed tasks, remove |the task, and let you continue on your way. It doesn't do a perfect |job, but works most of the time, with only a little loss of memory. Resource tracking is not the only problem. A buggy program can render vital operating system (or other running processes) structures hopelessly corrupt. Weren't any of you around the last time this thread made the rounds (finally died about two weeks ago)? We really need a FAQ list, if only for this one topic. |Darin Johnson |djohnson@ucsd.edu Dave Schaumann | And then -- what then? Then, future... dave@cs.arizona.edu | -Weather Report