[plt-dev] Re: [plt-internal] Upload of Planet package fails

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> I don't recognize the error immediately, but I think it might be that
>> the continuation wasn't found for some reason. Perhaps the file was so
>> big the continuation was gone before the upload was complete.
>
> That doesn't seem good! If that were the case, it would mean that a gc
> that happens during an upload could potentially cause the upload to
> fail?

The continuations are reclaimed independently from the GC. They are
always reachable, because I never know when a new request will come in
for them. (For example, someone could go to a site, write down the
URL, store it in a safety deposit box with instructions for their
grand-child to go to the site on their 50th birthday, etc.)

It would be cool to do something GC-like by inspecting all current
requests during a reclamation phase, but it's not on my radar. (And
actually wouldn't fix this problem, because until the upload is
complete there is no request to observe.)

Jay

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