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- From: DESMITH_N@COLLOQUIUM.CO.UK (Nick de Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: Warning. XWATCH/SPY causes crash.
- Message-ID: <9212300048.AA05977@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 12:32:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 33
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- Hi,
-
- Well, I may only read this list rarely now, and not contribute as often as I
- did, but I should respond to this message:
-
- Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG, welchb@woods.ulowell.edu Wrote:
-
- > We had a system crash (VMS 5.5-1). My rudimentary analysis of
- >the crash dump showed "unexpected system service exception". Further
- >analysis by DEC showed that it was due to use of XWATCH/SPY, by Nick
- >deSmith, 1991 OCTOBER 10, even though we had used this product successfully
- >many times before.
-
- Close, but no banana - my name is "Nick de Smith", or "Nicolass van der Smet"!
-
- I hope that I have never, ever, claimed responsibility for code that is not
- mine. I certainly would NEVER admit to writing WATCH (;-), for a start, the
- style is awful... However, I did contribute a *small* patch to enable it to be
- used as a data monitor for comms lines. I take ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBILITY for
- the rest of it - anyone who has seen my more usual coding style (in MWAIT or the
- FT loadable images or ...) should know that.
-
- Please, make it clear to the DEC support person that it it not my code! I have a
- reputation to uphold!
-
- BTW. I would like to see this feature in the SUPERVISOR series, if its not
- already there...
-
- Merry Christmas (or whatever you may celebrate) and a Better New Year
-
- Nick
- "May you always sleep between a pair of legs better than your own..."
-
-