On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:28:48AM +1100, Bruce Ellis wrote: > When a process exits it closes it's fds, so it sends a > Tclunk ...but if the process it sends it to is exiting it can't > respond. It's in the same position. Call it "deadly embrace".
Definitely not a nice situation. But from my (oh $god knows) limited understanding of the great picture, when does that happen? File server shutdowns? Wouldn't it be much nicer to make a "don't accept new connections, wait X seconds for the clients to clunk, if time is over, just clunk"-function. No other situations, none that I could think of, would result in the situation you described. > There is no close() in Inferno so the garbage collector is responsible. I don't know limbo well, but I don't know how it could work without close() in any way. Else see my rave above.
