On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 30-10-2012 19:04, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>
>>
>> The semaphore implementation for OSX is not signal-safe. Originally,
>> druntime used the signal approach on OSX and had deadlock issues in the
>> signal handler (OSX semaphores wrap a
On 30-10-2012 19:04, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-10-26 01:18, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Oct 25, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
What's used on OS X? I forget...
The method used is similar to how GC works on Windows--there's a kern
On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-10-26 01:18, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> On Oct 25, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>>
>>> What's used on OS X? I forget...
>>
>> The method used is similar to how GC works on Windows--there's a kernel call
>> that can be us
On 2012-10-26 01:18, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Oct 25, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
What's used on OS X? I forget...
The method used is similar to how GC works on Windows--there's a kernel call
that can be used to explicitly suspend a thread. I can't remember the function
name
Sean Kelly wrote:
[snip]
In D, the main thread will join all non-daemon threads before calling
static dtors or performing any other cleanup. Daemon threads will
continue to run until the process exits. So daemon threads are
basically just C-style kernel threads.
[snip]
The GC in D uses S
On Oct 25, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>
> What's used on OS X? I forget...
The method used is similar to how GC works on Windows--there's a kernel call
that can be used to explicitly suspend a thread. I can't remember the function
name offhand though.
On 26-10-2012 01:11, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Peter Sommerfeld wrote:
Hi!
I'm new to D an not a native speaker so I may misunderstand
the following sentence of the thread documentation.
"final @property void isDaemon(bool val);
Sets the daemon status for this thread.
On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Peter Sommerfeld wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm new to D an not a native speaker so I may misunderstand
> the following sentence of the thread documentation.
>
> "final @property void isDaemon(bool val);
>
> Sets the daemon status for this thread. While the runtime
> will w
Hi!
I'm new to D an not a native speaker so I may misunderstand
the following sentence of the thread documentation.
"final @property void isDaemon(bool val);
Sets the daemon status for this thread. While the runtime
will wait for all normal threads to complete before tearing
down the process, d
