From: JPK on 21 Sep 2009 09:15 CUte analogy, but not accurrate. I want to compose my will in advance of pulling the trigger. I want to specify clean up of my brains before they splatter on the wall "Jeff Johnson" <i.get(a)enough.spam> wrote in message news:u9TXlRwNKHA.4700(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > "Peter Duniho" <no.peted.spam(a)no.nwlink.spam.com> wrote in message > news:op.u0c3r4qnvmc1hu(a)macbook-pro.local... > >> But, there's a fundamental need for the act of killing a process to >> simply immediately stop the process; providing a hook or other mechanism >> for that process to execute any code at all before it's forcibly >> terminated would negate one of the main points of terminating a process >> in the first place: to get it to immediately stop whatever it is it's >> doing. > > Someone in another group once wrote a rather graphic analogy when this > question was posed (mainly about writing debug logs during shutdown): When > you put a gun in your mouth and blow your brains out, it's a little hard > to compose your last will and testament while you're falling to the > ground. > |