> On Sep 19, 2017, at 11:30 AM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:27 AM Jim Ingham <jing...@apple.com> wrote:
> We agreed to forwards compatibility because people write big scripts that use 
> the SB API, implement GUI's on top of them (more than just Xcode) etc.  So we 
> try not to jerk those folks around.  That adds a little more responsibility 
> on our part to think carefully about what we add, but the notion that we 
> should refrain from making useful functionality available because we'd rather 
> not be beholden to our decisions seems really wrong-headed to me.
> 
> And in this case there's a clear use for this. For instance the xnu macros 
> have a bunch of Python based commands that spew out pages and pages of 
> output.  Those guys would love to make their commands interruptible.  To do 
> that they would need to call WasInterrupted.  So this is 100% something that 
> should be available at the SB API layer.
> 
> 
> Couldn't it just return eCommandFinishedNoResult?  Or a new value, 
> eCommandFinishedPartialResult? 

I don't follow.  How would it know the user asked it to stop?

Jim


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