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In article <362@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>In article <1570@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes:
>>> 
>>> The one change we could make for V1.4 is have it GURU (recoverable?)
>>
>>	No, please no more GURU conditions.  It seems to be that a reasonable
>>	thing to do is when the count would go negative just mark the
>>	library as permanently open and ignore any further closes.
>
>ok, how about this. I give pm an arex port. And I also let pm display
>messages sent to him via arex. When the library detects an illegal
>condition it sends a string to pm and pm puts it up. The library itself
>cannot put up the message since it does not open any other libraries, nor
>does it have control over how much stack it was given.

Interesting idea.  I never would have thought about it.

>
>Couple more questions.
>Do I just wait till opencnt goes negative globally? Or should the library
>track particular tasks.

Danger Will Robinson... resource tracking ahead.

It depends on how complex the implementation is.  Task tracking has it's
advantages.

>
>If I track particular tasks should I automatically close the library
>for that task if it disappears from the system? Or maybe I should just
>send another message stating that a task was lost.

Sounds like you may be setting a precedent for other libraries to
follow

>Dale Luck     Boing, Inc. {cbmvax|oliveb|pyramid}|!amiga!boing!dale
>Although I do contract work for Amiga-LosGatos, my opinions probably
>don't represent those of Commodore or its management or its engineers,
>but I think the world would be a better place if they did.

GOT THAT RIGHT!!

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