In message <i968f501...@news6.newsguy.com>, Chris Torek wrote: > Running the above code fragment in a different implementation, in > which garbage collection is deferred, would *not* close the file > descriptor, and the system would potentially run out (depending on > when a gc occurred, and/or whether the system would attempt gc on > running out of file descriptors, in the hope that the gc would free > some up).
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