On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:18:37AM -0400, Bob Shannon wrote: > > Merciful $DEITY, what a kludge. CANCEL should be an exceptional > > condition. > I hope you're not implying IBM should invest resources to clean up APPC.
APPC, ASCH, and all of those TCP/IP daemons. If it requires a CANCEL to bring down, it's broken. It's not like IBM doesn't have lots of code lying around to handle STOP, so it can't be that much of a resource commitment. The problem is that, on a platform whose strong suit is reliability and maintainability, having to issue a command usually reserved for terminating problematical programs to bring down the system "normally" is an exposure. How do you explain to an operator that some things can and should be ended via CANCEL, while others need STOP and using CANCEL on them is a bad thing, while still others will just plain reject a CANCEL? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
