[armedbear-devel] Error condition is too strong

[Blake McBride]

On second thought, if Java has anything like (I'm mainly from the C
world) flush all buffers, close all files, hold other threads, etc.
could be a problem too.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Blake McBride <blake at mcbride.name> wrote:
> 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.
>>
> [...]
>>
>> Are there any other forbidden functions for "well behaving" libraries?
>
> Not that I can think of.  Thanks!
>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Erik.
>>
>