finalizers on handles

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 24, 2009, at 02:27 , Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
>>> Sure - but it hurts more when in some environments you get away with
>>> it and others you don't.
>>
>> You'll still have that though, it'll just be a different set of
>> environments.  The next failure mode after this one is writing more
>> than _PIPE_BUF down ih; you'll deadlock in the write when in blocking
>> mode, in non-blocking mode it depends on how the runtime handles
>> partial writes.
>
> I'd hope for consistency across the GHC runtimes though.


You can hope, but I get the impression blocking/non-blocking maps to  
threaded/non-threaded respectively in which case all bets are off.   
(Unless the ghc runtime guarantees some specific behavior here.)

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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