[plt-scheme] Threading vs. System Threads

At Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:55:17 -0500 (EST), Paul Graunke wrote:
> At Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:10:59 -0600, Robert Bruce Findler wrote:
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> > 
> > How do you handle killing of threads? That is, in the face of
> > custodian-shutdown-all or kill-thread, can messages appear multiple
> > times or can internal queues get put into bad states (deadlock)?
> > 
> > Robby
> 
> I suspect ending up in a bad state will be much less of a problem
> in a cooperative multitasking system.  If nobody can interrupt your
> thread until it yields, nobody else can be running to kill your thread
> at an un-opportune moment.

Right, of course. I saw the message passing primitives and forgot about
the cooperation -- I'm dying to get something better in the DrScheme
REPL implementation, but it won't work with only cooperation (since the
Kill button is a critical part of the IDE)

Robby