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At 09:50 PM 1/21/01 +0000, nick@ing-simmons.net wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> writes:
> >At 12:11 PM 1/21/01 +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
> >>By cancellation
> >>point I mean somewhere that is defined as 'safe', i.e. not holding any
> >>mutexes or waiting on any CVs etc.
>
>So what do we do if we die with a lock held?
If user code die()s, then too darned bad for them, they have orphaned
mutexes. Perl itself shouldn't ever die--a user-level die's a perfectly
handlable thing, and there's no reason we can't have an orderly release of
internally held resources.
Dan
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