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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:02:34 +0100
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Dmitry A. Kazakov schrieb:

> Now consider a case when the last screw is removed from the device. This is
> an operation eventually serviced by the device driver. I.e. within the
> device driver, you see, it was the last screw of the device and *if* there
> is no other references to the device, it must fall apart. This is a case
> where you wanted the device to commit suicide. There is nobody else out
> there to do this. The device is dangling. This is not the only use case,
> just one possible case.

Could you make a Hammer task that will perform its duties
whenever a Device is reported/reports to have lost all its
screws?  (Yes, a garbage collector, I think, though explicitly
co-operating with devices.)