Lets clear up some misconceptions

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 11:31 pm, Brian Kelsay wrote:

> Why should the OS lock up completely or crash, just because of a poorly
> written app you used.  The OS should control the hardware and sense that
> an app is doing something bad and shut down just the app.  e.g. detect
> memory leaks and race conditions.  

Man, it would be great if Linux would do that.  I wouldn't have had to reset 
it two days ago.