<story><title>Every programmer should read the source to abort() at some point in their life.</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/iu0f7/every_programmer_should_read_the_source_code_t/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msarnoff</author><text>Reminded me of &quot;5 ways to reboot a PC, none of them reliable&quot; from a couple months ago.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607116&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607116&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interesting how fundamentally simple tasks like aborting a process or rebooting the machine have very nontrivial (even kludgey) implementations.</text></comment>
<story><title>Every programmer should read the source to abort() at some point in their life.</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/iu0f7/every_programmer_should_read_the_source_code_t/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kenjackson</author><text>Raymond Chen wrote a classic blog post on how process exits on WinXP.  But if you&apos;re a developer, know that it&apos;s not the same for Win7.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/03/2383346.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/03/23833...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>