Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores...

Paul Jackson (pj@engr.sgi.com)
Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:13:45 -0800

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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