Can't kill hung remote CP copy

[Andy Blanchard]

On 14 April 2012 20:25, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>wrote:

>
> Under what circumstance would killing a waiting process
> be worse than a process that should have waited,
> but terminated instead?
>
>
Waiting for a timeout implies a reasonably sane state of affairs regarding
any data in transit, and if the worst has already happened then it's not
going to make any difference.  Either way, it forces the end user to make a
hopefully sensible decision about how to reset the device and recover from
the situation.

If, on the otherhand, you do a soft reset of the device and resume
transfering data...  Well, think about the garbage that can come out of a
printer when jobs go wrong, now imagine that being written to a hard disk,
tape drive, etc.

-- 
Andy

*The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe*
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