Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!amdahl!kevin From: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: IEEE libraries Keywords: IEEE Message-ID: Date: 9 Sep 88 22:50:51 GMT References: <1356@percival.UUCP> <358@boing.UUCP> <1570@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <362@boing.UUCP> Reply-To: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 50 In article <362@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes: >In article <1570@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes: >>> >>> The one change we could make for V1.4 is have it GURU (recoverable?) >> >> No, please no more GURU conditions. It seems to be that a reasonable >> thing to do is when the count would go negative just mark the >> library as permanently open and ignore any further closes. > >ok, how about this. I give pm an arex port. And I also let pm display >messages sent to him via arex. When the library detects an illegal >condition it sends a string to pm and pm puts it up. The library itself >cannot put up the message since it does not open any other libraries, nor >does it have control over how much stack it was given. Interesting idea. I never would have thought about it. > >Couple more questions. >Do I just wait till opencnt goes negative globally? Or should the library >track particular tasks. Danger Will Robinson... resource tracking ahead. It depends on how complex the implementation is. Task tracking has it's advantages. > >If I track particular tasks should I automatically close the library >for that task if it disappears from the system? Or maybe I should just >send another message stating that a task was lost. Sounds like you may be setting a precedent for other libraries to follow >Dale Luck Boing, Inc. {cbmvax|oliveb|pyramid}|!amiga!boing!dale >Although I do contract work for Amiga-LosGatos, my opinions probably >don't represent those of Commodore or its management or its engineers, >but I think the world would be a better place if they did. GOT THAT RIGHT!! kevin -- UUCP: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,seismo,oliveb}!amdahl!kevin DDD: 408-737-5481 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 [ Any thoughts or opinions which may or may not have been expressed ] [ herein are my own. They are not necessarily those of my employer. ]