clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Clement Pellerin) (02/09/90)
How I wish I could have an abort button in the browser. I sometimes click on the wrong file and I have to wait for ever for the optical to launch the application so I can click on the quit item in the main menu of the application. (accelerator disk not here yet) With Mach lazy allocation of pages, I suspect all that noise from the optical comes from page faults in the execution of the application, not from the process loader. This means the browser could send a task_terminate on the port it recieved upon task_create even before the application is visible on the screen. The button could be masked as soon as the application is stable. what do you think? Is the hard disk too fast to bother with this? is the browser calling the UN*X interface instead? -- news <clement Clement Pellerin, McGill University, Montreal, Canada clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca