17 Nov
2005
17 Nov
'05
9:07 a.m.
Maybe one of the Simons can comment on this. I distinctly remember trying the mdo approach to kill the other thread and getting burned by that. Don't know why I forgot to mention it. On Nov 17, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
What I do remember is that the timeout and parIO functions in the concurrent programming papers I found were NOT correct. killThread did NOT behave as expected when I killed an already killed thread. I tried multiple tricks here (including some which required recursive do-notation) to try to get the parIO function to only kill the *other* thread. This could be done by having the two spawned threads take their computations in an MVar along with the threadID of the other thread.