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In article <1991Nov11.123902.10189@newshost.anu.edu.au> goomcb32@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Miles Goodhew) writes:
>In propaganda <9131517.29262@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, comrade carl@ecr.mu.oz.au (Ivan the TERRIBLE) rambles:
>>I've got an A500, 512 chip, 512 fast, 2 drives.  
>>I have a problem with csh.  When I background a task, 
>>I can then look at it using ps, but can't work out how to
>>kill the process.  
>
>You can use the Amigados command "break", which will insert a ctrl-c (or a
>specified break-key) into its main input. HOWEVER, it's up to the program to
>pay heed to the ctrl-c signal, and not very many programs do that (Well-
>designed programs do). It's dangerous to just kick-out a program, as there's
>no memory-segmentation or address-mapping on a "standard" amiga (i.e. one
>without an mmu), so while the program is dead, its screens, buffers,
>copperlists, etc. etc. may (probably) still exist.
>
>There are progams that will allow you to terminate processes forcibly (ARTM
>is quite good, as it allows you to close windows and screens, and many other
>things. I understand that GOMF guru will also let you banish processes). However
>this is a 'risky business'.

Does AmigaDos 2.0 have memory protection such that writing outside of
malloc'ed mem will cause a seg fault (or whatever) rather than a reboot?
To my mind, that is one of the major pains of developing on non-Unix
(or rather MSDOS, Mac OS, AmigaDos, etc) operating systems.

>MHG.

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