[racket-dev] Thread exit status

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On 2011-10-22 11:14 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>> I don't think any change is necessary, because this can be done as a library:
>> https://github.com/jeapostrophe/exp/blob/master/ethread.rkt
>
> I was hoping for something that works for threads created using (thread)
> as well. Using either your approach or something like
> https://gist.github.com/1306106 works well for programs where you
> control all the threads, but I wonder about whether it composes well
> with other code. Maybe it doesn't matter as much as I think, though.

Eh, I think imposing this on all the threads would be a bad idea
because it would increase memory usage unexpectedly for a lot of
programs, I would guess

>
> (Incidentally, there are deadlocks lurking in (update-thread!), but I
> think those can be worked around. One way is via the gist above; another
> is using the kill-safe single-write box I mentioned earlier today.)

Ya, of course, but it's easy to fix.
>
> Regards,
>  Tony
>



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