From: Nicolas George <nicolas.george@ens.fr>
To: Caml mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] closing file descriptors and channels
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:14:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031120171403.GA3281@clipper.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031120173538.B14255@pauillac.inria.fr>
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Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXII, Xavier Leroy a écrit :
> The other possibility is to use close_out_noerr and close_in_noerr
> that will just ignore the errors arising from the closing of the
> underlying file descriptor. But this can be dangerous:
This can be even more dangerous if another file has been opened between
the two closes (which can be invisible in threaded programs) and has got
the file descriptor that has just been closed.
I am preparing a RFC for this list about a complete rewrite of the I/O
subsystem, and this is definitively a problem that must be addressed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 16:14 Christian Schaller
2003-11-20 16:35 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-11-20 17:01 ` Tim Freeman
2003-11-20 17:14 ` Nicolas George [this message]
2003-11-20 16:55 Christian Schaller
2003-11-20 16:54 ` Tim Freeman
2003-11-21 16:28 ` skaller
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