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Has the thread cancellation problem evolved ?

Daniel_Bünzli
- skaller
  - Daniel_Bünzli
  - Gerd Stolpmann
    - Daniel_Bünzli
      - Gerd Stolpmann
        
        Daniel_Bünzli
      - Gordon Henriksen
        
        Brian Hurt
        
        Daniel_Bünzli
        
        Robert Fischer
        
        Brian Hurt
        
        Gordon Henriksen
        
        skaller
        
        Lionel Elie Mamane
        
        Gordon Henriksen
- skaller
  - Alain Frisch
- Gordon Henriksen

Date:	-- (:)
From:	skaller <skaller@u...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Has the thread cancellation problem evolved ?

On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 15:58 +0200, Daniel BÃ¼nzli wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I would like to raise again the problem of portable thread  
> cancellation. The potential coming (?) of native dynamic linking  
> brings the stunning perspective of type-safe, native, plugins.  

BTW: unrelated issue: unloading the plugins. This presumably
will not be possible (since it isn't with bytecode either).
?

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