[plt-scheme] Cleanup on servlet timeout

No, custodian-shutdown-all doesn't execute any thunks!

Robby

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Henk,
>
> The timeout mechanism kills a thread by using custodian-kill-all on
> the custodian for that thread. I think, but am not positive, that this
> executes the post-thunks of dynamic-winds in the body. Hopefully
> knowing how it works will help you debug further. If you think there
> is a bug, perhaps you can write a small example that I can test with?
>
> Jay
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Henk Boom <lunarc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm using the timeout dispatcher to stop responses which take too long
>> to compute. Normally when I throw an exception, the sqlite bindings
>> ensure that I release the database and I use dynamic-wind to release
>> my own locks I have claimed. However, when the request times out this
>> cleanup doesn't happen, I'm guessing because the thread is terminated
>> in a harsher way. Is there a way I could throw an exception in the
>> thread after a timeout instead of simply killing it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Henk
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