Re: [Caml-list] Has the thread cancellation problem evolved ?

[Gordon Henriksen <gordonhenriksen@mac.com>]

On Aug 28, 2007, at 11:12, Brian Hurt wrote:

> Robert Fischer wrote:
>
>> Brian Hurt wrote:
>>
>>> So what happens if I throw an infinite loop into an exception  
>>> handler?
>>
>> Now, my experience with .Net is somewhat dated, but I'm pretty  
>> sure it re-hangs on your loop, and signaling another abort will  
>> break out of your loop and continue up the chain of exception  
>> handlers.  At least once upon a time, there was a very large  
>> business which I worked for that did a lot of concurrent .Net  
>> work, and the standard solution was to keep signaling the abort  
>> until the thing finally died.
>
> Until you get someone "clever", who does something like (in Ocaml):
>
> let rec do_my_work () =
>    try
>       do_a_bunch_of_work ()
>    with
>    | Thread_abort_exception ->
>       (* Ack!  Someone tried to kill me!  I refuse to die! *)
>       do_my_work ()
> ;;

“Doctor, Doctor! It hurts when I go like this.”

You know the rest.

— Gordon