Tracking whether a connection is alive

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:29:38 +0200, Owen Fraser-Green wrote:
> Anyway though, even if there's some mechanism such that HAL can be 100%
> sure that an application has hung, will it always be able to release the
> lock without the application first being killed? In that case, again, I
> think dealing with hanging apps is out of HALs scope.

Yeah, I don't think we want to code too defensively here, deadlock
detection is notoriously tricky. For apps that it is a problem for, the
solution is "don't hang" :)