Re: Time allowed for service shutdown

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From: Gary Chanson (gchanson_at_No.Spam.TheWorld.net)
Date: 03/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:43:42 -0500

"Martin Kochanski" <nothing@nobody.net> wrote in message
news:40538D8F.78B19860@nobody.net...
> The more I think about this the more I agree.
>
> Do developers in fact "fix their programs so that [data loss on
> shutdown] can't happen"? Judging from the newsgroups, Exchange Server
> isn't fixed (it sets a 10-minute timeout instead). Is Exchange Server
> the exception, or do most programs behave that badly in practice?
>
> [I'm not seeking an excuse not to do the work, I just want an excuse to
> look extra smug when I've done it].

    I don't really know. Most programs aren't likely to face this problem
in typical usage but that doesn't mean that any thought was put into
preventing the situation. Exchange Server may be an example where it is
particularly hard to avoid the problem. With the huge number of programs
developed by Microsoft, it's likely that you can find examples of almost any
bad practice, even though the overall quality of their code is pretty good. 

-- 
-GJC [MS Windows SDK MVP]
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-gchanson@mvps.org

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