Subj : Re: kill executing script...
To   : Brendan Eich
From : Oystein Hallaraker
Date : Tue Jun 29 2004 11:24 am

Brendan Eich wrote:
> Oystein Hallaraker wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> Does anyone know how to kill an executing script before it is done?
> 
> 
> Do you mean stop execution from within a native function, getter/setter, 
> etc.?  Return false (after setting a pending exception or reporting an 
> error, if possible -- otherwise you are intentionally creating a silent 
> stop condition).
> 
I tried returning false to the jsengine from a native() call, and that 
will stop execution of the current script. But what I really wanted was 
a way to asyncronously stop the script execution (without having to 
return false to the engine). Is this possible?


>> (can I use JS_DestroyContext()...?)
> 
> 
> No, that will crash.
> 
>> And is it possible to disable all scripts from a domain while mozilla 
>> is running? I have been looking at the nsScriptSecurityManager, but it 
>> dosn't seem to have functionality to support this.
> 
> 
> You could easily extend the system to support such disabling based on 
> domain.  Are you looking to make something work on existing releases of 
> Mozilla products, just by using JS?  I don't know of a way to do that.
> 
> This is really a news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.dom 
> question.
> 
> /be

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