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Seeing that it's not responding doesn't really give extra information
Authored by: asterizk on Sep 14, '02 09:25:32PM
Landtuna wrote: "I don't think there's really any way of knowing if an application is hung up except by looking at how it's acting." Exactly -- computer scientists know this as "The Halting Problem", proven in the 1930's by mathematician Kurt Gödel and computer scientist Alan Turing . If you're curious, here's the best site I've read on the topic (requires a basic level of programming experience for best consumption): http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/csk/halt.html [link will open in new window]. --Krishen

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