Re: A true story of a crash.

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:19:34 +1200


On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 11:44:49PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> However, users might not find that to be the most reasonable
> behaviour, since they might lose a lot of work, and the server
> clearly killed many more processes than it needed to.

The X serving falling over and taking all the applications with it,
can, and does happen for other reasons too.

In this case, I would hope most/all clients are smart enough to save
enough state somewhere, as I beleive most editors do.

-cw

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