Simon Marlow wrote: > > > I have a program which comes to the end of the main action, > > but nevertheless won't go away. Is this > > a bug? When I give up and interrupt it, I get a message > > "fatal error: resurrectThreads: thread blocked in a strange > > way"; could this be connected? > > The behaviour hasn't changed: when the main thread completes, the > program ends. However, we do run finalizers first, and if one of the > finalizers blocks on an unavailable resource (perhaps something the main > thread forgot to free?), then you'll get a deadlock. None of _my_ finalizers are blocking, because I don't have any. Indeed the string "Foreign" does not appear anywhere in the sources. > > However, you shouldn't get the resurrectThreads error msg; any chance of > a repeatable example? (or is it the whole of UniForm again :-() Yes, that's exactly what it is. Perhaps I should try to persuade you to get it (using CVS) and see for yourself; it may not be the last bug we come across (and there's also that business with sockets being buffered to be tracked down).
For the time being I have "solved" the problem with Posix.exitImmediately, which I realise is only slightly less drastic than pulling the plug. If I had to guess at what the cause of the problem is, it would be sockets . . . Best wishes, George Russell _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
