[Info-vax] VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> This can be exended into the database world. None of our applications
> has any "exit handlers" to detach from the database (Rdb). When we
> run the application rundown script all detached processes are simply
> exited with a STOP <procname>. There are then a number (one for each
> stopped process) recover processes running for a second or so to
> clean up in Rdb (active transactions and so on). Has worked without
> a glitch since 1994.

A shutdown capability is ALWAYS built into my detached applications. 
I've never considered anything else.  Both the messaging apps and the rest.

Maybe I'm a bit too particular about these things, and maybe not.  I 
feel a job is not done until it's 100% done, not something less.

It's similar to error trapping.  Some people consider all possibilities, 
and handle errors whenever possible.  Others just let the program exit.

I'm sure some people can get away with, in my opinion, shoddy, 
incomplete, half-assed, workmanship.  Me, I dot the I's and cross the 
T's, and all the rest.  Just the way I approach things.