David Bolen <db3l....@gmail.com> writes: > I'm curious - do you know what happens if threading is implemented as > a native OS thread and it's stuck in an I/O operation that is blocked? > How does the Lisp interpreter/runtime gain control again in order to > execute the specified function? I guess on many POSIX-ish > environments, internally generating a SIGALRM to interrupt a system > operation might work, but it would likely have portability problems.
Someone wrote a paper proposing some Python language extensions to support asynchronous exceptions in Python threads. I don't have the url handy but you can probably search for it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
