From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6589BC84 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:07:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (yquem.inria.fr [128.93.8.37]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j28D7qQf023242 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:07:52 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: <200503071710.52544.jon@jdh30.plus.com> References: <293072a520e3724a0497e6456a8675be@mac.com> <200503071330.49084.jon@jdh30.plus.com> <87oedvcypd.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> <200503071710.52544.jon@jdh30.plus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9f6d26c252c088b8e9a6c61494579a03@inria.fr> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Damien Doligez Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: exception safety / RAII ? Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:07:59 +0100 To: caml-list X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 422DA3A8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; damien:01 damien:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 exception:01 doligez:01 doligez:01 short:01 termination:01 inria:05 cases:08 however:12 such:13 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Mar 7, 2005, at 18:10, Jon Harrop wrote: > However, many programs run for a short time and, in these cases, I > believe > that OCaml guarantees to close your files at least upon program > termination, OCaml does no such thing. The OS does. -- Damien