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- From: dat94ali@ludat.lth.se (Anders Lindgren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: resourcetracking/Kill on A4000
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 22:00:54 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden
- Message-ID: <4e6a6m$8ru@merkurius.lu.se>
- References: <4e0554$hro@merkurius.lu.se> <4e2cqe$1i2j@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
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- In article <4e2cqe$1i2j@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>,
- meixner@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Matthias Meixner) writes:
-
- >ali (Anders Lindgren) (dat94ali) wrote:
-
- [WWROAM my chainsaw cuts away my article]
-
- >Resource-tracking is not possible with the current version
- >of the OS. The problem is resource trading:
-
- Of course, that's a really nice feature, making task
- communication really fast.
-
- >task "a" allocatest memory and sends it to task "b"
- >task "b" can now do with it what it wants.
- >If you had resourcetracking, the memory would be
- >freed if task "a" terminates and whereas task "b"
- >would still use it, which is a good way to bring a
- >system down.
-
- darned, I just *knew* there had to be some big catch! :(
-
- >With the current version of the OS, the OS cannot
- >know, who actually holds a resource, and therefore
- >there cannot be resource-tracking.
-
- Couldn't it be used as described, with the flollowing modi-
- fications;
-
- o Resources are only returned when I kill a program
- o If the program has communicated with other programs
- (and thereby possibly passed pointers and stuff to it)
- not parts of the OS, I get a big, fat warning saying
- "You know lad, this could really f*uck up everything"
-
- Otherwise I guess I'll just have to accept gradually loosing
- ram because a lot of shareware for some reason hates my machine... :P
-
- (After all, it's much less annoying than system-crashes. And oh, yeah.
- Some of Pete Storonskij's games seem really fun, anyone know why they
- all refuse *not to* crash taking the entire system with them? I've got
- a pretty much stock A4000/040 - could it be one of my (few) commodities?)
-
- /ali (Anders Lindgren)-----------------------------------------------
- dat94ali@ludat.lth.se | A4000/040 | "Yes, I do think |
- http://www.ludat.lth.se/~dat94ali | AmigaOS3.0 | M$ sucks major" |
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