Leandro Lucarella wrote: > You missed the point. I'm not talking about freeing the memory. I'm > talking about finalizers. A finalizer could send a "bye" packet throgh the > net. That can't be handled by the OS.
It can't be handled by the GC either, because: - This would require a high-level wrapper that knows about the "bye" packet around a low-level socket that doesn't know. By the time the high-level wrapper is finalized, the low-level socket may already have been collected. - It is bad form to wait for the next garbage-collection cycle before cleanly terminating connections. What you need is RAII, not garbage collection. -- Rainer Deyke - [email protected]
