Hugs does not free file handles on stop pressed

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Fri Feb 16 08:58:07 EST 2007


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.



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