23 Nov
2014
23 Nov
'14
5:03 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Simon Marlow
- cleanup that might block in an unkillable way
This does make me wonder... while the example I am going to use is somewhat obsolete, it's an extreme example of something that can still happen. Somewhat infamously, if you do not use a no-rewind device, close() blocks unkillably in the kernel until the tape is rewound. What happens if this occurs during finalization in the garbage collector? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net