>>>>> "Art" == Art Goldhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Art> Rich Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Does it happen everytime on every program? Or does it happen
>> everytime on the same program.
>>
Art> In my case it happened to a program with a coding error. At
Art> least I think that was the reason. I fixed the error, and the
Art> problem hasn't recurred (yet). But it would be nice if a) the
Art> VM didn't hang on bugs and b) if it must hang, there should be
Art> some graceful way out through the JDE. I'd be happy to use C-k
Art> if it worked, but it doesn't always (on Win98 with Cygwin bash
Art> shell it seems somewhat iffy). -- Art
It seems to me that this is a generic problem with windows
95/98. I get many apps that dont shut when they are supposed to. Emacs
used to cause it periodically (though this is a lot less frequent than
in emacs19 days). gnuserv also does it not infrequently. I dont know
what else does it as they tend to be Clint processes (processes with
no name).
The only er..."graceful" solution to this is to use emacs
desktop saving, and periodically kill emacs and restart, or better
still kill emacs, and reboot the entire machine. Its a good excuse for
a tea break anyway so Im not complaining, and the desktop saving means
at least you come back in (more or less) where you started.
Phil
