On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:24:32PM +0300, Arne Ansper wrote: > [...] what if some standalone application thinks that the > best solution for _its own_ problems is to reboot the machine? (happens > all the time under the windows btw, you install some crap and the > installer happily reboots your system). for me it's not different if some > library thinks that the best solution for _its own_ problems is to kill > the application. the application must have a control.
Exactly. > if the internal > error (it would be correct to call them bugs, btw) happens When in internal error happens, this is because of a bug, but the internal error is not the bug. A bug is a property, not an event. > application > must get this information and then it's up to the application to deal with > it. if it's simple commandline tool it can call abort by itself. if its > complex application it might unload the openssl and reload it later. or > save its state and restart. only application knows what the right thing to > do is. Also only if the application sees an error message, it has the opportunity to write this message to a logfile. With 'abort()', all you know is that the program is no longer running, but you usually have no idea why this happened. -- Bodo Möller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/Mitarbeiter/moeller/0x36d2c658.html * TU Darmstadt, Theoretische Informatik, Alexanderstr. 10, D-64283 Darmstadt * Tel. +49-6151-16-6628, Fax +49-6151-16-6036 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
