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To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com>, caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr,
        "Norman Ramsey (E-mail)" <nr@deas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: Interpreter vs hardware threads
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From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
Date: 12 Mar 2000 12:45:08 +1100
In-Reply-To: Xavier Leroy's message of "Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:02:31 +0100"
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A few more questions about threads:

        1) is there any way to wait on the termination of single or multiple threads?
           There doesn't seem to be and this seems to be a strange oversight.

        2) What happens to Thread.t variables onces the thread they reference
           has disappeared?

        3) related to the above, what happens to
           file descriptor backing of {in,out}_channel variables once they
           are no longer referenced (i.e are those files automatically closed?)

Cheers,
Julian.