[Caml-list] Native Threads

[nadji@noos.fr]

Hi,

I've just been playing with threads and I noticed at execution
time that Thread.kill is not implemented by the posix-compiled
version of the library. I used this flag because I thought that
it would be faster (please correct me if I'm wrong), and there
was no mention that Thread.kill would not be implemented.
By looking at the sources, I learned that the reason is
"problems with cleanup handlers on several platforms".
That's fine with me, but I would like to compile my
program :)
So, would it be easy to add a flag to the byte code compiler
to say that we want the full thread library ?
Or, is there a workaround to simulate Thread.kill, without
modifying the (function running as a)thread to kill (it could
be doing a long system call) ?
Or, does someone knows how to implement a function
 timeout: float -> (unit->unit) -> unit
which executes the function given in argument , but
no more than a certain amount of time, without Thread.kill ?

TIA,
Nadji

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