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From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Martin Wirth <martin.wirth@dlr.de>, rusty@rustycorp.com.au,
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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores...
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0203031410310.623951-100000@sam.engr.sgi.com>; from pj@engr.sgi.com on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:13:45PM -0800
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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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>                           Programmer, Linux Scalability
>                           Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373
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