Bug in touchForeignPtr?

Keean Schupke k.schupke at imperial.ac.uk
Mon Nov 22 13:34:12 EST 2004


Nope there are some unix resources that c exit routines do not free
like semaphores.

Sven Panne wrote:

> Keean Schupke wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> Whatever happens I think it must make sure all system resources 
>> allocated
>> by a program are freed on exit - otherwise the machine will have a 
>> resource
>> leak and will need rebooting eventually.
>
>
> That's an OS task IMHO, not really the task of an RTS. Looks like you're
> working on WinDoze... (sorry, couldn't resist :-)
>
> Cheers,
>    S.
>
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