Re: Task destruction

[Wolfgang Jährling]

Niels Möller <address@hidden> wrote:
> This thread started with the question of task destruction. I imagine
> the handles being used for this: To kill a task, you must be the
> target of one of the task's control handles (exactly how this check
> will be done I don't know, it looks like a bidirectional reference
> while a handle seems more unidirectional).

Object handles are also bidirectional, i.e. the server knows which user
task holds a handle.  Or did you mean something different?

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang

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