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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.

One solution that is not exactly elegant, and certainly doesn't solve
all the problems is to at least make sure that when someone opens the
IEEE libs the opencnt is at least one.

If I run a broken program and it doubly closes the IEEE libs, then opencnt
is -1.  If I run this again then opencnt is < 1, at least force it to
1.  This may not handle all the cases, but might help in some.

>Dale Luck     Boing, Inc. {cbmvax|oliveb|pyramid}|!amiga!boing!dale

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