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From: Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com>
To: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
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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?

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                          Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373

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