Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter 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 Lines: 23 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?