[armedbear-devel] Error condition is too strong

Blake McBride blake at mcbride.name
Thu Jan 13 21:08:05 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Blake,
>
>> I am in the process of embedding ABCL into a web server application I
>> have.  While it is okay for an error to either be caught and handled,
>> or not handled and having the thread terminate, it definitely is not
>> okay for an error condition to kill the entire server.
>>
>> I am executing a (load "file") command (where "file" doesn't exist)
>> from Java and it kills the entire server.  I tried enclosing it in a
>> try/catch block (I tried Exception & Throwable)  and it still killed
>> the server.
>
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>
> Are there any other forbidden functions for "well behaving" libraries?

Not that I can think of.  Thanks!

>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Erik.
>




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