From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: Re: Closing mailboxes Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8108 Posted: Fri Jul 23 20:31:11 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 06:32:03 1982 >From Samuelson@SANDIA Fri Jul 23 20:23:09 1982 You are correct, you cannot delete a mailbox until all processes which have a channel to the mailbox close that channel (ie: it will be marked for deletion, making it look like a temporary mailbox, the it will go away when the last process closes the channel). If you want to know if the reader/creator of the mailbox is still around we have found that the best way is not to let senders keep the mailbox open all the time, but to re-open it each time they want to send to it. That is extra overhead, but it avoids the problem of not knowing if the creator is alive or dead. - Sam - -------