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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:03:56 -0500
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From: michael block <michaelmuffin@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell?
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>> 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? =C2=A0how
> do you decide that the program is not going to
> relaunch? =C2=A0how 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