"Qingqing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intentionally use *unnamed* semaphores to avoid these problems -- even if > the semaphores didn't go away (as Magus pointed out, if all processes can > exit gracefully, this won't happen), we won't worry about them -- Creating > semahpores will still succeed because there is no existent same named > semaphores will bother it.
Except that eventually you run the kernel out of resources. We were forced to confront that point very early when dealing with the SysV API, because of the remarkably low resource limits it traditionally has, but long-term resource leaks are never a good idea in any software. Or are you designing this according to the widespread view that Windows system uptimes are measured in small numbers of days anyway? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings