On 27/07/2011 04:10, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/packages/base
On branch : master
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/6e71bdd5742a62bcd239757f3cc8872d1615fc26
---------------------------------------------------------------
commit 6e71bdd5742a62bcd239757f3cc8872d1615fc26
Author: Edward Z. Yang<[email protected]>
Date: Tue Jul 26 23:08:16 2011 -0400
Remove mention of setUncaughtExceptionHandler from forkIO.
First of all, the 'forkIO' mechanism doesn't use
'setUncaughtExceptionHandler' to install the masking
handler: it uses 'catchException'. Second of all,
'setUncaughtExceptionHandler' is undocumented, global, and
wouldn't even work for the intended purpose!
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang<[email protected]>
There seems to be some misunderstanding here. The documentation was
correct, and in the absence of a reference to
"setUncaughtExceptionHandler" there's no clue as to what the "uncaught
exception handler" might mean.
I agree that setUncaughtExceptionHandler is undocumented and global and
undoubtedly a less-than-perfect design. But I think this patch is a
step backwards, not forwards.
Cheers,
Simon
---------------------------------------------------------------
GHC/Conc/Sync.lhs | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/GHC/Conc/Sync.lhs b/GHC/Conc/Sync.lhs
index f16ee3f..4475d2e 100644
--- a/GHC/Conc/Sync.lhs
+++ b/GHC/Conc/Sync.lhs
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ GHC note: the new thread inherits the /masked/ state of the
parent
The newly created thread has an exception handler that discards the
exceptions 'BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar', 'BlockedIndefinitelyOnSTM', and
'ThreadKilled', and passes all other exceptions to the uncaught
-exception handler (see 'setUncaughtExceptionHandler').
+exception handler.
-}
forkIO :: IO () -> IO ThreadId
forkIO action = IO $ \ s ->
_______________________________________________
Cvs-libraries mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-libraries
_______________________________________________
Cvs-libraries mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-libraries
