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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Deallocating records with task type fields.
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:45:37 +0000
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:

> Gene wrote:

>> 2.  As I read the ALRM it is incorrect to deallocate a
>> Listener_Type object until the Executive task has exited.  What is
>> a good idiomatic way for the Executive to deallocate its own task
>> local storage just before it exits and without causing a race
>> condition?  [The only ways I can come up with seem like excessive
>> machinery.]
>
> The best way is not to use allocation, and thus not need
> deallocation.

True, but there's still the problem of freeing the resource abstracted
in Gene's original by the Listener_Type object (that is, the port).