finalisation

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Jan 26 20:21:10 UTC 2004


Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:
> > ...the chance of the process being terminated inbetween the
> > assignment and entering the ensured block is - compared to the
> > probability of being terminated somewhere inside #fileNamed: - so
> > remote it isn't even worth mentioning.
> 
> 	I've experienced it. Apparently you're more of a gambler than I am.
> 

Where is the terminate coming from?

If it's from an exception internal to File, then you shouldn't need to
#close the file as a user.

If it's from another thread, well, don't do that.  :)  You'll have many
other difficulties than this one.



-Lex



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