RE: [Haskell-cafe] killThread and FFI calls

On 14 December 2005 14:26, Joel Reymont wrote:

How does killThread work with FFI calls? What happens at the low level when a thread is blocked on an FFI call and received a KillThread exception? Does it exit immediately via some GHC magic or is the exception caught when the FFI call returns?

The latter. Cheers, Simon