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SubjectRe: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores...
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:13:45PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Hubertus Franke wrote:
> > But more conceptually, if you process dies while holding a lock ...
> > your app is toast at that point.
>
> Without application specific knowledge, certainly.
>
> Is there someway one could support a hook, to enable
> an application to register a handler that could clean
> up, for those apps that found that worthwhile?
>

I think that's a good idea, I'll think it through and see what Rusty thinks.


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