A lock that times out but doesn't poll

[Jive]

"Antoon Pardon" <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote in message
news:slrncqdtc0.61m.apardon at rcpc42.vub.ac.be...
>
> What do you mean with a Zombie? The clock thread will remain for as long
> as the timeout, which may be longer then needed but then they disappear,
> so there won't be any real zombies.

Whether you call them zombies or not, they can multiply like crazy and fll
up system memory.