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The best way to circumvent the lack of Thread.kill ?

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Date:	2005-11-09 (12:17)
From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] The best way to circumvent the lack of Thread.kill ?

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 03:36:15PM -0500, Jonathan Bryant wrote:
> First of all, what is going on in the Event module?  I can't exactly get
> it to work an I fear I'm missing some important concept.  I can't find
> any documentation other than the interface.  Does anybody know of any
> further documeeentation or have a good explanation of exactly what's
> going on.

Yes, the Event module is quite confusing.  I have used it in this code
(in the file adwords_mt.ml) to implement a simple command pipe between
a parent thread and worker threads, so you might want to download and
take a look at this code:

http://merjis.com/developers/adwords_api
http://merjis.com/_file/adwords-api-1.0.6.tar.gz

Rich.

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