[plt-scheme] Cleanup on Servlet Timeout (Again)

[Henk Boom]

2008/8/21 Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu>:
> Just fyi, it so happens your shiny new hammer actually has a hidden
> crack in its handle, its head is made of untemepered steel, and the
> joint between the pieces lacks any fastening so at some unpredictable
> point during heavy use, the head will go flying and will smash a hole
> in some precious object.  But this will happen without you noticing
> it, so you keep pounding away and will wonder why the nail isn't going
> any further into the wall.

Do you mean to say that there is something broken about semaphores or
that they are simply not an adequately abstracted synchronization
tool?

    Henk