On 6/18/22 09:23, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
Coming back to respawning: I do not know if it is really necessary. It may be just defensive programming (sensible because modern OS-es work essentialy in probablistic way, with small but nonzero probablity you may get essentially random failures). It may be attempt at masking errors: incorrect programming may increase chance of error enough to be a trouble, respawning may mask it.
I stumble across this today: (3) -> )what synonyms ------------------------- System Command Synonyms ------------------------- <snip> )startGraphics ................. )system $FRICAS/lib/viewman & )stopGraphics .................. )lisp (|sockSendSignal| 2 15) <snip> So there was support to easily start and stop viewman inside FirCAS. This is evidence that viewman does not need auto respawning -- current behavior is that when ")stopGraphics" stops a viewman process, sman will start another one. This should be considered as bug. - Qian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/509e3b25-9f57-ab7c-cc4d-31a30a9d0a9d%40gmail.com.
