Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-06 Thread Gregory Casamento
What should NSExceptionMask be implemented as? SHould it be a boolean that determines if we should allow the application to continue or not? That is to say * NSExceptionMask = YES - report all exceptions, but continue anyway... * NSExceptionMask = NO - current behavior If so, I have a patch

Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-06 Thread David Ayers
Hello Gregory, Am Freitag, den 06.02.2009, 00:33 -0500 schrieb Gregory Casamento: What should NSExceptionMask be implemented as? SHould it be a boolean that determines if we should allow the application to continue or not? Did you read the link that Richard provided?

Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-06 Thread David Ayers
Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 23:44 -0800 schrieb Matt Rice: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM, David Ayers ay...@fsfe.org wrote: I still believe that handling generic handling of exceptions in the runloop is a dangerously wrong and an implementation detail that we shouldn't try to be

Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-06 Thread Gregory Casamento
David, It may be best for some critical applications to set the NSExceptionMask setting to manually so that they will abort at the first sign of trouble. I admit I didn't read the links immediately. I have now and it looks like that is the best way to go, although a little more work than I had

Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Lux
Gregory Casamento wrote: What should NSExceptionMask be implemented as? SHould it be a boolean that determines if we should allow the application to continue or not? That is to say * NSExceptionMask = YES - report all exceptions, but continue anyway... * NSExceptionMask = NO - current

Re: Allowing Applications to continue after exception...

2009-02-06 Thread Gregory Casamento
My test application doesn't link with the ExceptionHandling framework at all So, it looks like we have two things going on here under Cocoa/OpenStep: 1) The standard/default exception handler generally just logs the exception and continues... as illustrated by my example code. 2) The

Re: Off to FOSDEM

2009-02-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
The same is true for me too! I hope to have connection at FOSDEM though, for email or even real-time communication with those which couldn't come. Riccardo - Original Message - From: Richard Frith-Macdonald rich...@tiptree.demon.co.uk I'll be leaving for FOSDEM tomorrow morning and

Re: Off to FOSDEM

2009-02-06 Thread Gregory Casamento
Excellent... have a safe trip. Let me know how things go there... and have a beer for me if you can. ;) On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Riccardo Mottola mul...@ngi.it wrote: The same is true for me too! I hope to have connection at FOSDEM though, for email or even real-time communication

Re: Off to FOSDEM

2009-02-06 Thread Gregory Casamento
BTW, I should be available on skype if anyone there wants to get in touch with me from the conference. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Gregory Casamento greg.casame...@gmail.comwrote: Excellent... have a safe trip. Let me know how things go there... and have a beer for me if you can. ;)