[Techtalk] OT but I'm desperate.... Windows....!

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Fri Oct 18 23:15:56 EST 2002


On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:42:25AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Meredydd Luff thought:
> 
> On Wednesday 16 October 2002 23:32, Conor Daly wrote:
> > So this is how MS decided to handle the BSOD.  Automatic reboot!  Yaay, Go
> > Microsoft!
>
> Yep, and it's damn sensible too. Which is why there's a kernel option to do 
> exactly the same thing on an OOPS (recommended for production machines), and 
> why init restarts anything it's controlling that dies (not ideal, actually, 
> as you don't run everything off init).

Agreed.  As Maria said, it beats getting out of bed at 0300hrs...  My
_real_ point is that, rather than fix the problems, they've chosen to go
the route of automating the reaction (ie. reboot).  The kernel and init
behaviour is there to handle the _exceptional_ cases rather than the norm
as MS's "feature" does...

Conor
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