Tracking whether a connection is alive

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:49:28PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> 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" :)
> 

Right. I'll just implement the snippet Daniel Silverstone sent and we'll
have to rely on existing mechanism to take care of broken apps. Which
sounds kind of right to me.

Much thanks to everyone,
David