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Re: [Chicken-users] thread-wait-for-i/o! and thread-terminate!
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Re: [Chicken-users] thread-wait-for-i/o! and thread-terminate! |
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Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:41:45 -0500 |
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Chris Vine:
> Does anyone know if thread-terminate! can safely be called on a
> thread which is blocking on thread-wait-for-i/o!, without putting
> chicken's internals into an inconsistent state.
Calling thread-terminate! in any circumstances may put your code
into a bad state, because it unlocks mutexes without letting the
user data structures that those mutexes protect be unwound.
In general, terminating threads from outside is always a Bad Thing.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address@hidden
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