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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:46:13 -0500, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> said:

> It takes no more than a well-designed operating system service to
> ensure that badly written programs don't fail to release resources
> when they crash.

Unfortunately, the System V shared-memory API is brain-damaged and
does not permit this.

-GAWollman

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