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Balboos wrote:

Personally, I don't take the 16+ million colors, and tiny subset which are actually given names, to be a reason "why it can't be done", but why it won't work well for the general case.

Balboos wrote:

Perhaps you were a bit harsh or overzealous in the criticism, or now, even more convinced of it. Still, I'll not vote you a one for the lambaste - you're entitled and all that.

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PIEBALDconsult wrote:

Why do you want to do it?

Electron Shepherd wrote:

allow existing processing to terminate cleanly

Electron Shepherd wrote:

while still running other background processing.

Electron Shepherd wrote:

other background processing

Electron Shepherd wrote:

A good example would be a web server implementing Keep-Alive. You may need to prevent new inbound connections, possibly for load balancing or other resource allocation requirements, but preserve the internal state data.

Electron Shepherd wrote:

Dont forget that just because you've never needed to do it doesn't mean no-one ever needs to do it.