From: michael block <michaelmuffin@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell?
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:03:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3df301650903311003m4f555930te7380d60d2d75ca4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4c78c4c31b86bb7eff705dd2bebb835@quanstro.net>
>> you think the idea of reloading a crashed program is not a good one?
>
> i don't like the idea.
>
>> for example, what if it's a web browser?
>
> how do you determine when to relaunch? how
> do you decide that the program is not going to
> relaunch? how do you stop an errant shell from
> relaunching and consuming all your resources?
you could just print out the commands to restart the
program, and the user could select and send it only
if they want to. that's the approach i usually take
when i write an rc script to automate something, but
i want to check what's going to happen before i
let it run
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-31 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-31 15:29 noagbodjivictor
2009-03-31 15:47 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-31 16:10 ` matt
2009-03-31 16:26 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-01 2:39 ` sqweek
2009-04-01 3:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-31 16:14 ` rapogue
2009-03-31 16:19 ` André Günther
2009-03-31 16:19 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-31 16:27 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-31 16:16 ` noagbodjivictor
2009-03-31 16:47 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-31 17:03 ` michael block [this message]
2009-04-01 9:28 ` matt
2009-04-01 9:43 ` yy
2009-04-01 10:01 ` matt
2009-04-01 12:41 ` hiro
2009-04-01 12:54 ` Martin Neubauer
2009-03-31 16:55 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-31 18:28 ` Corey
2009-04-02 18:41 ` John Stalker
2009-04-02 23:20 ` LiteStar numnums
2010-10-03 16:25 C H Forsyth
2010-10-05 19:12 ` erik quanstrom
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