Re: [AC21.4] close massive race window on process death, mark II

nix> [moved to -beta, there is no patch here anymore] Thanks, I shoulda set Reply-To. nix> ... but, checking, I see that PROCESS_LIVE_P() and friends nix> live on, although kill-process looks marginally safer. nix> OK. this needs to be done in 21.5 too, then. I'll do that. Good man! nix> Yes :) but I frobbed the semantics of some of the other stuff Right, but (a) you believe you understand those and (b) I believe I understand those and (c) we agree that you frobbed in the safe direction. This one was uncertain, so I like the Hippocratic policy. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py