Timeline for Do exceptions basically exist to prevent a system from crashing?
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| May 20, 2019 at 18:39 | comment | added | 8bittree | There are limits to what an Operating System can clean up. In general, an OS cannot know whether any persistent resources (e.g. files) need to be cleaned up or rolled back, nor can it know if there's any cleanup needed for a remote connection, beyond simply closing the connection on the local side. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 22:47 | history | answered | Jürgen Strobel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |