#9030: An async exception handler that blocks throwTo until handler finishes running -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: jberryman | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by jberryman): Sure, but the `throwTo` is something the users of my library are doing. Or maybe they're using the `async` lib which is doing the `throwTo ThreadKilled`. In this particular case I think the user will have a mental model of what should happen when a blocked reader thread is killed (which matches the behavior of standard `Chan`), and I'd rather just be able to implement that rather than document weird corner-cases or force users to use a particular function or `Exception` type (although thanks for that idea; I'll probably warm up to that as a workaround). Maybe users never in practice think or care much about what happens when they do a `throwTo` and I just have to worry about not leaving my data structure broken; I'm not really sure. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9030#comment:2 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler