From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <49D333D1.5040607@proweb.co.uk> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:28:49 +0100 From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <607fb38c-9095-4045-abbb-28fa454184aa@l38g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <48020bdd-71b6-41ac-89c4-539d06d8d12e@f37g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <48020bdd-71b6-41ac-89c4-539d06d8d12e@f37g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell? Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf4f5aa4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > you think the idea of reloading a crashed program is not a good one? > for example, what if it's a web browser? > > crash reload crash reload crash reload agghh make it stop btw. Windows uses this mechanism for running Explorer, as a stop gap to fixing it they just made it auto-respawn. either way I think it's a unrequired feature for a shell, a user program specifically for monitoring process state would be preferred, should it be required.