RE: Re: quit files

---In [email protected], <dave.g4ugm@...> wrote :

> Sorry Paul, but that did skip my attention. However,
> I think its un-realistic to expect Hercules to clean up
> the mess that results when you pull the plug on a
> running system.

> It is like expecting your laptop to behave deterministically
> after you whip out the battery and power lead.

I don't know why you would think these things
are equivalent. In any application ever written,
when you type in "quit" or "exit" or "end" or
whatever magic word tells the application you
no longer want to run it, I expect the application
itself to shut down cleanly. ie cleanly close
things like the log file. Not put random results
in the log file.

"quit" should not mean "make a mad dash to
the exit, don't bother flushing files or saving
data, because this is a man in a hurry!".

If that's what people think make sense for
the "quit" command then I suggest we need
another command which means "the man's
not in such a hurry that he doesn't want the
log file and other files finalized and flushed
to disk".

BFN. Paul.