On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:48:51PM +0300, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> How big a task would it be to implement asynchronous inter-thread
> exceptions? In practice the feature would amount to a function:
> 
> val raise_to : exn -> Thread.t -> unit
> 
> This would be most handy for implementing eg. timeouts: just make a thread
> that sleeps and raises an exception in the other thread when the time is
> spent.
> 
> The GHC folks and John Reppy have done some work on spelling out the
> semantics of asynchronous exceptions in Haskell. Could this be used as a
> base for a similar system in a strict and impure setting like ocaml? What
> would be the main difficulties, both theoretically and implementation-wise?

BTW, also it would be nice to have a (working) way to kill a thread.
There is kill, but it does not seem to be implemented.

Well, what i really want to do is to have a thread running a GUI, and
have some events which will launch another thread doing some
calculation, which may take a long time (or even tnot finish).
So i thought having a button or something in the GUI handled by the main
thread to kill the launched thread would come in handy, saddly, the kill
function is not implemented.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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