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From: Chaos Eternal <chaoseternal@shlug.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The equivalent of racket's break-thread in guile?
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 20:16:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGyY8Ns4GfJSdJz27F+=8W3Cn_oJ1DtRzNVgBtpwiP4o+sRt7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369983337.2610.64.camel@Renee-desktop.suse>

IMHO, that means if you send a signal other than SIGSTOP SIGCONT
SIGKILL or SIGTERM, the signal will not affect the whole process.
also, SIGSTOP/SIGCONT and SIGKILL are un-catchable signals, they are
not offten used.
according the pthread_kill(3), you can send arbitrary signal to a
thread and, according to guile's manual, such signals can be catched.
they are just asyncs.

references:
pthread_kill(3)
6.21.2.1 System asyncs of guile manual.

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 14:24 +0800, Xin Wang wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for pointing out this.
>>
>>
>> After some more search, I found that pthread has function pthread_kill
>> [1], which can be used to send signal to specific thread.
>>
>>
>> No sure if it can be used to implement similar behaviour.
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_kill.html
>
>
> At least in Linux, pthread_kill may effect the whole process:
> ----------------------------cut----------------------------------
> Signal  dispositions  are  process-wide: if a signal handler is
> installed, the handler will be invoked in the thread thread,
> but if the disposition of the signal is "stop", "continue", or
> "terminate", this action will affect the whole process.
> ----------------------------end----------------------------------
>
> The real solution for your purpose is green-thread IMO.
>
>
>>
>>
>>         > Regards,
>>         > Xin Wang
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-31 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-30 23:40 The equivalent of racket's break-thread in guile? Xin Wang
2013-05-31  3:59 ` Nala Ginrut
2013-05-31  6:24   ` Xin Wang
2013-05-31  6:55     ` Nala Ginrut
2013-05-31  8:44       ` Xin Wang
2013-05-31 10:33         ` Xin Wang
2013-05-31 12:16       ` Chaos Eternal [this message]
2013-06-01 23:27         ` Xin Wang
2013-05-31 10:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-06-01 23:49   ` Xin Wang
2013-06-02  0:34     ` Nala Ginrut
2013-06-02  1:11       ` Xin Wang
2013-06-02 13:51     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-06-03  1:37       ` Xin Wang
2013-06-03 10:12         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-31 11:20 ` Taylan Ulrich B.
2013-05-31 23:28   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-06-01  6:46     ` Taylan Ulrich B.
2013-06-01 16:08       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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