Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:07:03 -0500 | From | Hubertus Franke <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores... |
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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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