"Bryan O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Edward Z. Yang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pure code can always be safely asynchronously interrupted (even code > using state like the ST monad), and IO code can be made to interact > correctly with thread termination simply by using appropriate bracketing > functions that would handle normal IO exceptions. > > Ertugrul's advice is still correct. I'd wager there are very few > concurrent applications that could survive a killThread without > disaster. People simply don't write or test code with that in mind, > and even when they do, it's more likely than not to be wrong.
That's surprising to me -- this is how we kill the Snap webserver (killThread the controlling thread...). G -- Gregory Collins <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
