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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A proposed solution to the resource tracking problem (long)
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Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 12:34:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  9 12:34:52 1987
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>>CONCLUSION:
>>	The end result would be that we would then be able to kill new
>>programs which understand the new EXEC calls and still not be able to kill
>>old programs which do not.
>
>Argh!!! I think this is a _very_ wrong approach.  You see, it says "Every
>last person who _ever_ writes _any_ software must know about this and
>use it.  *All* of you, every one.  And, you must do it correctly.". 
>Chances of getting everybody to do this are so near zero as to be
>uncountable.  Think of all the software now that uses busy waits,
>or MOVE SR,<ea> or any other forbidden fruit.
>If it's done like that, 5 years from now there will still be untrackable
>software that will force people to suffer from reboots, lost resources,
>whatever.

	No, you simply have one call to EXEC 'TrackResource(TRUE)'. 
Presumably the major compilers (Manx/Lattice) would incorporate this into
their assembly code.

	Commodore isn't stable enough (yet) to be able to release a new OS
which makes half the software in existance incompatible.

	I have an idea:  Make the resource tracking contingent on a new DOS.
That is, if C-A releases a new DOS *everybody* will use it, and we can make
the resource tracking 'forced' automatically upon any program using the new
DOS (as well as have the EXEC calls mentioned above).  Reason:  Anybody who
knows about the new DOS (Assuming C-A releases one) would also know about
the automatic resource tracking and write their programs accordingly.

		Is that convoluted or What?

			-Matt