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 -
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