On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:51:10PM -0500, David Golden wrote: > However, I'd like to get some consensus on how interrupted commands > should be graded... > > Options: > > (1) DISCARD -- just throw it away as junk > > (2) UNKNOWN -- indicating that something weird/inconclusive happened > > I think that (1) is safer -- where 'safe' means less noise about false > positives
Agreed. > but then what should we do in the case when someone > intentionally hits CTRL-C because something has gotten hung up? Then the user knows that he's dunnit and why, and can choose to contact the author himself, surely. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence There's a hole in the world like a great black pit And the vermin of the world inhabit it And its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit And it goes by the name of London.