Re: How to halt a running program without losing data?


"Walter Spector" <w6ws_xthisoutx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43B41F2F.B6CB5B70@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>.. the ad-hoc approach of polling a data file is not always
> reliable, and can carry performance problems.

Nor is it secure or robust: it's a naive high approach that's as good as
fortran is likely to come with.

>
> C programmers have always been able to use a portable signal facility
> that is part of the standard library, but Fortran programmers have not
> been so lucky.
>
> Once again I will note that the POSIX.9 Standard corrects this deficiency
> for Fortran by defining a portable interface to sigaction and friends.
>

Now you're talking: if only the self-appointed fortran cretins of clf could
comprehend; perhaps it's because the POSIX Standard is courtesy of anything
but fortran.

Happy New Year,

Hrundi V.B.

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