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[plt-scheme] threads, memory leakage?

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 17:47:52 EDT 2006		 
At Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:57:43 +0200, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema wrote:
> BTW.
> 
> A (kill-thread ...) on a thread that's "resting" on a semaphore.
> Could this result in a thread living forever?

In the space of possible bugs, this one seems relatively unlikely to
me. I think semaphore-blocked threads are terminated quite a lot in our
code and tests.

Matthew
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