Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 06:05 schrieb Samuel Bronson: > Yeah, what I mean is that the garbage collector does not *look* for > unreachable filehandles to close, or get run when many filehandles > have been allocated. It only runs finalizers when it happens upon > things with finalizers, it doesn't have any idea what they are for.
What could actually be done for open(2) and similar OS calls is that in case of an EMFILE/ENFILE error condition "enough" GC is triggered that unused file handles are closed, and then the open(2) is retried. This does not solve all problems mentioned, but is a step into the right direction. Memory should not be the only resource GC cares about... Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
