> > 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? I hope you're not implying IBM should invest resources to clean up APPC. Bob Shannon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
