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- From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
- Subject: Re: strcpy implementation question
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.121321.11038@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- References: <1992Aug23.003930.9918@saaf.se> <1992Aug23.194919.22007@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> <PINKAS.92Aug24183511@caraway.intel.com> <1992Aug26.224904.7671@sneaky.lonestar.org> <PINKAS.92Sep2173635@skywalker.intel.com>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 16:13:21 GMT
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- pinkas@skywalker.intel.com (Israel Pinkas) writes:
- >In my book, if evaluating 1+2 launches missles, it would be OK as long as
- >(1) the missles did not destroy the currently executing computer, and (2)
- >the lack of a missle in the launch bay did not cause the program to abort:)
-
- I think that this is too restrictive. An analogous requirement would prevent
- the implementation of ^C (perhaps it would have to be a non-SIGINT kind, like
- "kill -9"). I think that it's fine for the missles to destroy the computer,
- and I think it's fine for the lack of a missile in the launch bay to cause the
- program to abort. Anyone want to quote sections of the standard to the
- contrary? If you can, let's see if they can be used as arguments against
- implementing ^C. If so, we're in trouble.
-