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> pretty much ~no user wants to kill a program after N seconds This is exactly how the web and cloud FaaS like AWS Lambda does it, so I don't think it's right
by mike_hearn 3y ago
> pretty much ~no user wants to kill a program after N seconds
This is exactly how the web and cloud FaaS like AWS Lambda does it, so I don't think it's right to say nobody wants this. Runaway code does need to be killed.
- dataflow 3y agoI didn't say nobody wants this, I said no user wants this. We're not talking web servers, we're talking about Windows desktop apps here... with humans using them. User != admin != owner. "Web and cloud FaaS like AWS Lambda" don't have "users" (i.e. the kind who would say "this shouldn't exhaust my system resources" like the parent did). They're cattle, running batch jobs, and/or serving APIs that other client applications invoke...
- mike_hearn 3y agoWeb pages have users (JS has time limited execution and will be killed if the page hangs).
- dataflow 3y agoAre you under the impression web pages can access the Win32 API?