1. You do have to deal with the alert in A/UX before switching to another process. This is the same as modal dialogs under the Macintosh operating system.
2. This is also similar to the Mac OS: it depends on "how fatal" the error is. Some errors, such as Out Of Memory conditions, only affect the active application. Other errors will trash significant portions of A/UX and freeze the system (this is what a Macintosh application will do if it bombs); others may disable the OS, but allow you to gracefully exit the other processes. There are really too many variables to predict exactly
what will happen.
Article Change History:
29 Aug 1994 - Reviewed.
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