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Re: Controlling probe overhead


Hi -

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:01:32PM -0700, Stone, Joshua I wrote:

> [...]  And since I like convoluted corner cases -- what do you do if
> an end probe triggers an error?

Why, my dear Watson, we allow sequence numbering also on the error
probes.  That way they logically interleave with end probes.  Any end
probes with a larger sequence number will not be run and error probes
will.  (An error that occurs during an error probe is actually easy to
handle: that probe handler will unwind, but subsequent ones can run.)

- FChE


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