On 14 December 2005 15:35, Joel Reymont wrote: > On Dec 14, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: > >> On 14 December 2005 14:26, Joel Reymont wrote: >> >>> How does killThread work with FFI calls? What happens at the low >>> level when a thread is blocked on an FFI call and received a >>> KillThread exception? Does it exit immediately via some GHC magic or >>> is the exception caught when the FFI call returns? >> >> The latter. > > Does this change if I kill a thread that's blocked on I/O in a > threaded runtime? > > Does it get cleaned up immediately?
A thread blocked on ordinary Handle-based I/O can be killed, because blocked Handle I/O is implemented using communication with the I/O manager thread, so it isn't an FFI call under the hood. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe