I think I have raised the issue some time ago, but don't remember
why it hasn't been solved as I would like to.
Currently a thread which is killed displays Fail: thread killed,
e.g. in the following program:
import Concurrent
main:: IO ()
main = do
t <- forkIO (threadDelay 1000000)
threadDelay 500000
killThread t
threadDelay 500000
Since the very purpose of killThread is to kill the damn thread,
I find it inconvenient to have to wrap any thread which is supposed
to be killable with Exception.catch to avoid the message. Worse:
it should use block and unblock, otherwise there is a small window
where killing the thread will still display the message.
I can probably agree that other kinds of exceptions are displayed;
maybe the programmer didn't know that exceptions are being thrown and
wants the diagnostic. It implies that any well-written code should
catch exceptions in all threads it creates (unless he is sure that the
code will not throw exceptions), since there shouldn't be compiler's
error output from a correct program. Not nice but I can live with that.
Should asynchronous exceptions be really displayed in threads other
than the main thread? IMHO not.
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