Re: [MacPerl] file locking

[Eric Albert <ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu>]

At 05:49 PM 12/27/98 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
[locking code snipped]
>
>I think that should lock the file, and then unlock it open exiting the
>program, even if it exits prematurely (unless MacPerl itself dies).
>
>Any thoughts?

Well, David's testing looks good, so that's a good start.

I was wondering, though, about the case in which MacPerl dies.  Now,
Netscape has packaged something or other with Communicator 4.5 that runs
when Communicator dies to ask you to file a crash report with Netscape.
Annoying, yes, considering that Communicator still crashes relatively
often, but if it were possible to do the same thing with a MacPerl program
-- to enable something to run on a crash and, better yet, to be able to
pass data or (even better) code to be exec'd (or something like that) to it
to clean up after a horrible disaster -- then that would get around the
problem of MacPerl dying quite nicely in most cases.  Would that work and
be feasible, or am I just being fanciful here?

Not sure at all of how Netscape's crash detection works,
Eric

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