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In article <358@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>       The fact is, the program opened the library once and now closed
>it twice. Very Bad.

agreed!

>
>The one change we could make for V1.4 is have it GURU (recoverable?)
>when the opencount goes negative. The system is definately sick and
>we cannot continue normal operation of the system software. If someone
>else has the library open and tries to access it when your manx program
>has just caused a flush would result in fire works also.

Better than finding out the hard way.  I wouldn't have found it if I
hadn't been using AmigaMonitor (or looked at the open lib count).

>
>A more complex change would be the ieee library keeping a table of
>what tasks have opened the library. It could then keep a global count
>in the standard place, and when an individual task closes, make sure
>it is not doing something bad. It could then at least insure the
>correctness of master opencount.

Sounds far too complex.  Nothing, or the recoverable GURU sounds better.

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