Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Crash or Continue - An exploit writers aid?
Developers have noted an interesting feature in progress within the Mac OS X Lion release - the ability to continue an application poised to crash.
When Lion encounters an app that raises an exception and fails to properly handle it (essentially throwing an object in the air and filing to catch it), it now offers the user the choice of either allowing the app to crash or a new option of continuing to allow the app to run.
While this results in the app running in an inconsistent state, it does allow the user at least an attempt at saving data in any open files before quitting the app are restarting it fresh. The error dialog below indicates how an app that suffers a internal error presents the option to the user, providing a look at what caused the problem.L33tdawg: ... 'running of the app in an inconsistent state' sounds pretty interesting ;)
