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by eru 152 days ago
Well, to be fair, RAII is a leaky abstraction. For example, if your programme crashes there's no guarantee that you'll ever give the resources back.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...

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> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...

This example is specific to C++

> (..) if your programme crashes there's no guarantee that you'll ever give the resources back.

What guarantees can you have from a "crashing program", and by what definition of crashing?

> RAII is a leaky abstraction

Any abstraction is leaky if you look close enough.

> What guarantees can you have from a "crashing program", and by what definition of crashing?

You might like https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos-ix/crash-only-softwa...