From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: weis Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA18903 for caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:38:56 +0100 (MET) Resent-Message-Id: <200003021738.SAA18903@pauillac.inria.fr> Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA17952 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 03:20:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from ot-link.ot.com.au ([203.5.3.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA13939 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 03:19:54 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 28486 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2000 02:18:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO druid.in.ot.com.au) (203.5.4.202) by 203.5.4.251 with SMTP; 2 Mar 2000 02:18:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 534 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2000 02:18:01 -0000 Received: from merlin.in.ot.com.au (HELO in.ot.com.au) (203.5.4.26) by druid.in.ot.com.au with SMTP; 2 Mar 2000 02:18:01 -0000 Sender: maxs@inria.fr Message-ID: <38BDD0C9.D26E970@in.ot.com.au> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 13:24:09 +1100 From: Max Skaller Organization: Open Telecommunications Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christophe Raffalli CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: GC + thread References: <38BBEA7A.BCC0B1E4@univ-savoie.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-From: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Resent-Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:38:56 +0100 Resent-To: caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr Christophe Raffalli wrote: > This extension is also necessary (it is easy to have realistic examples > where the GC would collect much more thread with this extension). > > What do you think of that ? Why is this necessary? In particular, because in/out channels have reduced functionality, I have opted to use Unix.file_descr instead: these are converted to/from in/out channels if necessary. It seems to me this particular problem is part of a more general one concerning resource acquisition and threads? -- John (Max) Skaller at OTT [Open Telecommications Ltd] mailto:maxs@in.ot.com.au -- at work mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au -- at home