From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <49D333D1.5040607@proweb.co.uk> References: <607fb38c-9095-4045-abbb-28fa454184aa@l38g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <48020bdd-71b6-41ac-89c4-539d06d8d12e@f37g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> <49D333D1.5040607@proweb.co.uk> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:43:17 +0200 Message-ID: From: yy To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell? Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf541c74-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/4/1 matt : > >> 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. > If somebody wants to do such a thing (which all we agree is a bad idea) you need no new features in the shell, eg: while() firefox -- - yiyus || JGL .