Re: Hugs does not free file handles on stop pressed

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:12:04PM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:

If you abort a Hugs computation which has an open file handle, it remains open. I.e. do a writeFile "filename.txt" (show (1, last [1..])), press Stop or Ctrl+C and the file handle remains open.

However, doing "print 1", or just about anything as the next operation, results in the file handle being closed after that command aborts. I suspect that this means there is some routine out there that closes the file handles and does the tidy up - if it could be invoked on abort that would be handy.

It's done by the garbage collector. It was invoked, but there were still references to the handle at that time. Now fixed in CVS.