From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA27127; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:31:59 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA27411 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:31:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.dcs.qmul.ac.uk (vicar.dcs.qmul.ac.uk [138.37.88.163]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hAFKVw129214 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:31:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from xenografia.plus.com ([212.159.85.26] helo=dcs.qmul.ac.uk) by mail.dcs.qmul.ac.uk with asmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.24) id 1AL75H-0006ZC-Qv for caml-list@inria.fr; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:31:57 +0000 Message-ID: <3FB68D11.4010207@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:31:13 +0000 From: Martin Berger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GC and file descriptors References: <70D8AC5D-16A8-11D8-BFCA-00039310CAE8@inria.fr> <4A73AF35-16D1-11D8-9BF4-000393CFE6B8@spy.net> <1068905767.25869.130.camel@pelican> <20031115155617.GA592@exomi.com> <1068917444.25869.244.camel@pelican> In-Reply-To: <1068917444.25869.244.camel@pelican> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-User: martinb X-DCS-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-clamav-result: clean (1AL75H-0006ZC-Qv) X-uvscan-result: clean (1AL75H-0006ZC-Qv) X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 popl':01 finalizers:01 descriptors:01 finalisation:02 www:91 dcs:11 martin:16 martin:16 pertinent:82 file:18 hans:18 martinb:20 destructors:23 might:25 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk about finalisation vs GC, you might find the POPL'03 paper Destructors, finalizers, and synchronization, by Hans J Boehm pertinent. it is available at http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2002/HPL-2002-335.html martin ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners