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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: resource reclamation
Message-ID: <2507@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 19 Aug 88 12:15:34 GMT
References: <3763@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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Ooh! Info!

In article <3763@louie.udel.EDU>, iphwk%MTSUNIX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
	(Bill Kinnersley) writes:

> The 1st and 2nd SegLists in the SegArray are copied from the parent, the
> 3rd is the one supplied by the caller....

OK, what are the first and second SegLists? What's the purpose of this
shenanigans?

> Conceivably you could keep track of all these things and write a general
> cleanup routine.  Then someone will add his own library and expect the
> system to cleanup those resources too.

One thing you could do inside your program, then, would be to write a cleanup
routine for the Exec to call and mash it into the FinalPC slot for your kill
routine to handle...

If this became anything like standard, then we could add "kill" to C:...?
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?