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I Thought Mac Applications Weren't Supposed to Crash
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<blockquote data-quote="Thud" data-source="post: 84148"><p>You need to be very clear of one distinction:</p><p></p><p>MacOSX makes NO guarantees that programs won't crash.</p><p></p><p>Programs crash because they have BUGS. MacOSX can't help it if programs have bugs. Buggy programs can be written for any operating system. Buggy programs can (and do) crash on any operating system.</p><p></p><p>However, you can be assured that when a program crashes, it won't bring down the rest of the system. The OS just shuts down the offending program and keeps going. Windows does the same thing, but if device drivers are involved then it CAN bring down the rest of the system.</p><p></p><p>If the program simply closes without any error messages (I dunno if OSX informs you of an "illegal operation" like Windows does) then it means the program closed ITSELF due to an unhandled exception withint the program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thud, post: 84148"] You need to be very clear of one distinction: MacOSX makes NO guarantees that programs won't crash. Programs crash because they have BUGS. MacOSX can't help it if programs have bugs. Buggy programs can be written for any operating system. Buggy programs can (and do) crash on any operating system. However, you can be assured that when a program crashes, it won't bring down the rest of the system. The OS just shuts down the offending program and keeps going. Windows does the same thing, but if device drivers are involved then it CAN bring down the rest of the system. If the program simply closes without any error messages (I dunno if OSX informs you of an "illegal operation" like Windows does) then it means the program closed ITSELF due to an unhandled exception withint the program. [/QUOTE]
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