13 Jan
2001
13 Jan
'01
8:59 a.m.
From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com>
Real OS's (TM) don't let applications corrupted memory that they don't own
and they enforce memory protection and priviledge with EXTREME
PREJUDICE.
If Netscape pukes on FreeBSD the rest of the tcp/ip stack and the FTP
I'm running continue. If XFree86 dumps -- sendmail still continues.
I've seen Windows and NT loose all network connectivity after an app
blows up. I guess it looses access to the DLL's with the IP stack
code. I guess Unix had it right putting the network in the kernel.
--Bill
--
bpechter(a)monmouth.com | FreeBSD since 1.0.2, Linux since 0.99.10
Brainbench MVP | Unix Sys Admin since Sys V/BSD 4.2
Unix Sys.Admin. | Windows System Administration: "Magical Misery Tour"
And for the most part that's what Windows delivers, albeit sometimes
very
poorly. I can be playing Casino99, listening to
Napster tunes, surfing
the web, checking my e-mail, have a telnet session open, and have
Outlook
Express open, all concurrently. But then when I
close down Casino99
while
Napster is playing a tune, Napster crashes. Then
it causes other shit
to
go haywire sometimes, resulting in the need to
reboot. This is on a
Dell
Dimension 4100. A nice box.