> >Linux for S/390, currently available on the S/390 Parallel
> Enterprise Server
> >G5 and G6 and the Multiprise 3000 processors
>
> It's wonderful to see "3000" mentioned in such august company and with
> such gusto :-)

I thought the same.  My heart skipped a beat...

> I mentioned to her that she should be thankful that MPE had
> caught this
> condition.  The question then came up: How do other operating
> systems react
> to sloppy programming?

I ran the program on my Gavinized laptop (RedHat Linux 7.2 running under
VMware) and the program simply returned:

[wonsil@localhost wonsil]$ ./a.out
Segmentation fault
[wonsil@localhost wonsil]$ _

Now, others more knowledgeable than I, which there are many, may know how to
get a stack dump too, but this was the vanilla response.

The maturity question is on my mind too.  I have to say that Linux sure has
changed a lot since I first loaded a Slackware version back in the early
'90s.  It certainly has come a long way in the last few years.  What do you
think it will be like at the EOL of MPE?

Mark



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