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From: harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Resource tracking
Message-ID: <2634@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 04:17:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: ccicpg.2634
Posted: Fri Sep 18 04:17:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 18:56:55 EDT
Organization: CCI CPD, Irvine CA
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Keywords: Simple


	I for one wish to keep this issue simple. Very simple. An issue has
been raised to contend with resource management. Handle your devices, handle
your memory, but the hell with messages! 
	Imagine if you will, you are using UNIX on NFS. A machine is down.
You try like hell to talk, but the sucker is dead! Timeout or deal with in
another way. And if you can't, HANG on a MSGPORT. Big Deal! If your system
is screwed up so much, it deserves drastic action. It's a bug. Reboot if you
have too. Or KILL the OTHER offending TASK! And who cares if memory is
allocated to BOGUS messages! If there isn't enough, well reboot. The point is,
you are a sorry state of affairs. You might as well go GURU. BUT you don't have
to go so soon.
	There is no rule that says you can't KILL the opposing task that 
waits for the NEVER arriving message!. 
	My final point is: I don't wan't to see UNIX on the amiga. UNIX is
a HUGE PIG! Please don't make me make nasty CONTEXT SWITCHES! Thrash the 
Amiga OS all you will. 
	Elegance PLEASE! We have the example of why UNIX is screwed up!
Do we wan't it on the Amiga?


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