[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-07, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 19:11 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-02-06, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
>> > 
>> > As for BUGCHKs, they're best left to system level things such as
>> > device drivers. I think users would be rather displeased if a
>> > program kept
>> > taking down the operating system with it given bad inputs :-D
>> > 
>> You can have application level bugchecks that take down the
>> application only and in a controlled manner. That's also what I am
>> talking about here in addition to the system-level bugchecks.
>
> I wasn't aware that was possible, one learns something new!
>

Sorry, that didn't come across correctly.

I meant the concept of an application shutting itself down in a way
comparable to a VMS bugcheck if it detects an internal integrity failure.

However, you can indeed have non-fatal bugchecks on VMS that kill the
process, but not the system. RMS uses them and they are (usually)
non-fatal to the system itself.

Simon.

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