Re: [9front] dangerous Exit menu item in sub-rio

[qwx@sciops.net]

On Thu Aug 18 07:34:32 +0200 2022, meta.jxy@gmail.com wrote:
> Right click in sub-rio now becomes quite dangerous,
> an accidental release of the right button when the
> mouse cursor is on the Exit menu item will destroy
> everything in that sub-rio.

I agree and this had been the reason why it wasn't accepted in the
past, though it wasn't for subrios alone.  I strongly suggest adding a
confirm click or something if this is kept.


> The most dangerous item in the menu requires the least
> effort to trigger.  Do we really need such convenience
> in destroying sub-rio?  How often do you destroy the
> sub-rios?  What's preventing using the parent rio's
> Delete menu item for this?

I use subrios quite heavily and I need it *all of the time*.  In some
circumstances, one ends up having to find the subrio's pid and kill(1)
it, even within itself.  One silly example is a rio started while
rcpu(1)'d, same with vnc.  Others include scripts starting subrios and
cleaning up after themselves.  You can jump through hoops and
accomplish the same thing, but after years with it, I think Exit is
massively useful.  I do think that there should be some safeguard
mechanism though.

Cheers,
qwx