On Apr 27, 2:17 pm, "Richard Brodie" <r.bro...@rl.ac.uk> wrote: > "Vsevolod" <vselo...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:42cebb2b-0361-416c-8932-9371da50a...@y6g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > > > There's a common unification library -- bordeaux-threads -- > > that abstracts away implementation specifics. It's API includes > > the function destroy-thread. > > Which is deprecated, like the Java one. It's not hard to provide > a kill thread call, if you don't mind it having undefined semantics.
"This should be used with caution: it is implementation-defined whether the thread runs cleanup forms or releases its locks first." This doesn't mean deprecated. It means: implementation-dependent. For example in SBCL: "Terminate the thread identified by thread, by causing it to run sb-ext:quit - the usual cleanup forms will be evaluated". And it works fine. Best regards, Vsevolod -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
