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From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: IEEE libraries
Message-ID: <1410008@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 88 23:51:16 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> The one change we could make for V1.4 is have it GURU (recoverable?)
> when the opencount goes negative.

The best solution would be to kill the program which requested this.
Occasionally it would kill the wrong process, but usually the right
one would be killed.  Either way, the problem could be identified as
soon as possible.  The chances of the bug being caught and fixed would
thus be maximized.

Unfortunately, AmigaDos is not capable of doing this.  :-(
The next best solution is to recoverably Guru.  The worst solution is
to continue operating as tho nothing bad had happened.

> A more complex change would be the ieee library keeping a table of
> what tasks have opened the library.
> 	Dale Luck

This solution looks so complex that it is likely to create additional
problems that we cannot even imagine.
	Charles Brown