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From: wolfe@orion.sybase.com (Dave Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: More questions about Amoeba and Capabilities
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Date: 19 Jun 91 18:07:05 GMT
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In article <2623@amix.commodore.com@ skrenta@amix.commodore.com (Rich Skrenta) writes:
>@Question #2:
>@
>@The bullet file server returns a capability when you ask it to create a
>@file. 
>@Presumably you're supposed to add this capability to a directory or otherwise
>@responsibly manage it.  But what if you "lose" it?

In article <10238@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>It will eventually be garbage collected.  Normally you access the servers
>through standard library routines that take care of registering capabilities
>in directories for you, so they don't get lost.  If you make the low-level
>calls directly, then you have to be careful not to lose them.

Still doesn't answer the question of "what if you lose them?" Isn't
there also a possible window between the time the file/object is
created and the time a directory entry is made? Seems like you have a
storage leak problem in the event of a failure.

-DaveW