[plt-scheme] Threading vs. System Threads

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 12 22:58:39 EST 2003

On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 02:21  PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

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>>>> At Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:10:59 -0600, Robert Bruce Findler wrote:
>>>>> 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)?
>
> :) Since Robby knows what I've been working on, I think he knows the
> answer to the second question. At least, he knows that I claim the
> answer must be "yes" for MzScheme threads.

Yeah, that was my sneaky intent, to get a yes -- and I got one from 
Paul, not Greg! :)

Robby



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