From: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Inter-thread exceptions
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:43:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020904144330.GB1186@iliana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020903164851.A26567@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:48:51PM +0300, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> Hello.
>
> How big a task would it be to implement asynchronous inter-thread
> exceptions? In practice the feature would amount to a function:
>
> val raise_to : exn -> Thread.t -> unit
>
> This would be most handy for implementing eg. timeouts: just make a thread
> that sleeps and raises an exception in the other thread when the time is
> spent.
>
> The GHC folks and John Reppy have done some work on spelling out the
> semantics of asynchronous exceptions in Haskell. Could this be used as a
> base for a similar system in a strict and impure setting like ocaml? What
> would be the main difficulties, both theoretically and implementation-wise?
BTW, also it would be nice to have a (working) way to kill a thread.
There is kill, but it does not seem to be implemented.
Well, what i really want to do is to have a thread running a GUI, and
have some events which will launch another thread doing some
calculation, which may take a long time (or even tnot finish).
So i thought having a button or something in the GUI handled by the main
thread to kill the launched thread would come in handy, saddly, the kill
function is not implemented.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-04 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-03 13:48 Lauri Alanko
2002-09-04 14:43 ` Sven LUTHER [this message]
2002-09-04 15:30 ` Florian Douetteau
2002-09-05 11:30 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-09-06 18:22 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-09-09 14:15 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-09-11 20:41 ` Dmitry Bely
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